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Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Dates:
1828-1847, undated.
Letter of James Thomson to George Bubb Dodington.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14594
Scope and Contents
On poetry and poets.
Dates:
1730.
Letter of James Thomson to George Bubb Dodington.
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Identifier: Acc.14595
Scope and Contents
On disillusionment on travelling abroad and Thomson's growing interest in Liberty.
Dates:
1731.