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• Title:Journal of a tour through Wales, the lakes in Lancashire, Westmoreland & Cumberland, Edinburgh, and manufacturing towns in England in the year 1808.
  
• Production:Great Britain, 1808 August 10-September 26.
  
• Physical Description:1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 17 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: DA625 .J68 1808
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Title from caption at head of page 1.
  
• Summary:Manuscript travel diary kept by an unidentified woman travelling with her husband George, departing from London. The diarist makes daily entries, writing in black ink in a neat hand. The text is accompanied by nine simple drawings, in graphite and gray wash, tipped in. The drawing subjects include a lock on the Weir, Tintern, Rheidol Falls, Aberystwyth, Barmouth, and Windermere.
  Highlights of the tour include: George's descent down multiple mines; a meeting with Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere); a ride to the summit of Skiddaw, in the Lake District; numerous encounters with post boys and post coaches; Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace; Newcastle ("a rather black looking town from the number of coals in its neighborhood"); the weaving of Damask linen at Bedale; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Harrogate; the dropping well at Knaresborough (Mother Shipton's Cave); and the racecourse at Doncaster.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Subjects:Robinson, Mary.
  Great Britain--Description and travel.
  Edinburgh (Scotland)--Description and travel.
  
• Genre/Form:Travel literature.
  Diaries.
  Drawings.