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1. Add MS 88942/1/221

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Add MS 88942/1/221
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook listing plants and flowers found during a trip to Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany starting at Villa Hadriana. At the back of the notebook (upside-down), lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and England with detailed descriptions. Notebook started: 11 May 1823.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1823-1826
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 153 pages of text)

2. Add MS 88942/1/222

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Add MS 88942/1/222
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook starting 'Environs of Florence' (May 1826) containing lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and France, and at Lacock, up to 1839. Back to front (upside-down) contains further detailed descriptions of plants (also to 1839), probably referring to the lists of plants in the fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1826-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (68 folios, 79 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/220

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Add MS 88942/1/220
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains detailed descriptions of plants and a list of several places in Europe Talbot travelled to between 1821 and 1823. Back to front (upside down): lists of plants Talbot found during travels mainly in France, Germany and Austria in 1822 and 1823. The notebook also contains a v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1817-1823
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 142 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/223

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Add MS 88942/1/223
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Garden')
Scope & Content:
The earliest entry in this notebook, which takes the form of a Lacock garden diary, is at the back (17 December 1828). At the front of the notebook, the first page (f. 2) has been removed. The notebook begins (f. 3) with an entry dated 4 April 1829: 'Put an edging of saxifrage & thrift 3 inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 notebook (16 ff.)

5. Add MS 88942/1/219

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Add MS 88942/1/219
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Plantarum rariorum stationes à W.H.F.T. annis 1814, 1815, 1816, observata.-')
Scope & Content:
Five notebooks list botanical specimens Talbot identified during his travels in Britain and on the continent (Add MS 88942/1/219-223). These notebooks are complemented by Herbaria amongst his papers at the British Library. From an early age, Talbot was keenly interested in plants. As a boy, he ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1814-1816
Extent:
1 notebook (25 ff.)

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