| Description | On front endpaper; pencil notes on 3 particular items by Philip Lyttelton Gell on pages 134, 131 and 79;
Page 1: Song from the French, 1783;
Page 2: Song, first line "Tomorrow ye Muses the maid will be here";
Page 3: Memorandum of resolutions on keeping a diary, 27 May 1793;
Pages 4-8 Trip from London to Guildford, 27 May 1793;
Page 9: Hampton Lodge, 3 Jul 1793;
Pages 10-12: Guildford, 30 Sep -1 Oct 1793, dining with Humphry Repton and his opinion of him;
Pages 12-106: travels in Hampshire (Lymington, Hurst Castle including its lighthouse, Netley Abbey, Portsmouth) and the Isle of Wight (Yarmouth, Carisbrooke Castle, lighthouse on St Catherine's Hill, Shorwell), 27 Jul - 3 Sep; 1794, including reference to camp at Coxheath, where he was employed as Secretary of Lord Sheffield in 1782;
Pages 107-130: Journey from London into Lincolnshire, 17-29 Nov 1794 (Stamford, Newark, Lincoln including the castle and cathedral);
Pages 131-133: Lincoln, including the inn where he stayed over 20 years ago on his first journey out of Yorkshire, 30-31 May 1795;
Pages 134-138 : Hull, 1-3 Jun 1795, where he found his mother very infirm but happy, as she approaches her 80th year, and where he visited his father's grave;
Pages 138-150: Journey from Hull via Lincoln to Bourne, 4-5 Jun 1795;
Pages 151-159: Chelmsford, 17-19 Jun 1795;
Pages 160-161: Rough drawings in pencil of design of bridge and [?]pedestal for statuary;
Penultimate pages, written upside down [165-170]; copies of sonnet by Lord Belgrave "Il penseroso", poems by Lady Wallace, one with first line "Ah many mark the coming storm" and another entitled"To the Memory of Tickell"
Last page [176]; copy of lines on tomb of William Keeling, Groom of the Chamber to King James I, died 19 Sep 1619
Loose inside: notepaper headed Hopton Hall, Wirkworth, containing notes on 3 particular items by Philip Lyttelton Gell;
Bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gell on front inside cover |