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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Front to back, contains expenses from travels, mainly in France. Back to front (started in 'Sackville Street', London) contains further expenses from travels in France, Germany, Switzerland Austria and Italy, until 24 October 1823 (Turin). Notebook started: 9 Mar 1822.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1823
Extent:
1 notebook (35 folios, 22 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Starting on 20 March 1822, this travel diary contains daily notes of a journey to France, to 17 April 1822. The rest of the journey (to 31 April) is only indicated by a list of places. Talbot records general observations about land and cityscapes, climate, architecture, flora and matters of hist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 notebook (17 folios, 18 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains copied scientific and other extracts, from Lord Lyttelton, Weiss, Samuel Johnson, Hannah More and Walter Scott, written in different places on the continent presumably as handwriting practice. The front cover indicates that the notebook belonged to Henrietta Horatia Maria F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 36 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Release in fee of a cottage & premises at Bowden Hill')
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with the heading: '3 Oct 1825 30£ Release in fee of a cottage of premises at Bowden Hill to Mrs Anna Maria Pettifor'. There follows a legal draft, beginning 'This indenture [...]' between Talbot and Mrs Pettifor. Following this, the text of an unrelated legal document in Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 11 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Lists detailed travel expenses for a journey from Ancona to London ('May, June, July 1826 / 213 hours 51 min.') with the names of various places in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and England. Many blank pages. Notebook started: 22 Oct 1826.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 12 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Theâtre Français')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains cast lists of two plays: 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' (Theâtre Français) and 'Le Mariage de Raison' (Theâtre de Madame). Immediately following, there is a list of titled individuals (each of which is struck-through), and a second similar list, somewhat shorter, is written on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 notebook (7 folios, 5 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Travel diary (mainly France and Italy) containing notes on climate, geography, scenery and architecture. There are more than a dozen small outline sketches of the scenery by Talbot. Back to front (upside down): a list of places, mainly in France, probably related to the travel notes. Notebook ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 notebook (83 folios, 114 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('John Gale's Book, Lacock 1828')
Scope & Content:
The book lists jobs completed and payments made to John Gale (carpenter at Lacock Abbey) from 11 Aug 1827 to 10 Jan 1839. Carries John Gale's name on the front leather binding. Notebook started: Aug 1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (57 folios, 73 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Lists expenses from 17 May 1827- 10 June 1828, in Italian. With the notebook are six loose sheets (ff. i-vi), receipts from 1827 and 1827, that were originally kept in the inside pocket of the notebook. The notebook entries are not in Talbot's hand. Notebook started: 17 Mar 1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1827-1828
Extent:
1 notebook (vi + 31 ff.)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Books sent to the Binder')
Scope & Content:
List of books sent to binder reflecting Talbot's interests. The lists contains mathematical tractates, books on botany, philology, Arabic, Greek and plays, amongst others. Notebook started: 9 Jun 1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 5 pages of text)