1. Egerton MS 3869
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3869
- Title:
- DAWSON TURNER: manuscript version of an 'Account of a tour in Normandy' based on three successive tours undertaken in 1815, 1818, and 1819 by Dawson Turner (b.1775, d.1858), botanist and antiquary; circa 1820. Copy, partly autograph. The account, which concerns chiefly the architectural antiquities, history and inhabitants of the Duchy, was published in two volumes by J. and A. Arch, (London, 1820). It is in the form of thirty letters supposedly addressed (according to f. 1 of the present MS...
- Scope & Content:
- Voyages and Travels: Normandy, France: Dawson Turner, FSA; botanist and antiquary: James Layton, curate of Eastry with Worth: Account of a tour in Normandy by D. Turner addressed to J. Layton (?): circa 1820: Copy: Partly autograph.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1820
- Extent:
- 1 item