Scope and Contents Small label affixed reads 'Extracts by Charles Lyell Prose & Verse - Crown Office Temple Row'. Commonplace book of notes and quotations compiled by Lyell when a practicing barrister in London in his early twenties. The book is inscribed with his address: 9 Crown Office Row, Temple, where he moved in 1826 after vacating the cramped quarters he had known as a law student in nearby Norfolk Street (no longer in existence, checked 2021). This Notebook is paginated. Insertion at the front of...

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Stitched booklet titled "To My Beloved" containing poems and prose on the subject of love in the hand of Louisa Matilda Crawford. Includes a transcription of a poem by Byron beginning, "Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; / A spark of that immortal fire..." Original works are dedicated to Matthew Crawford and signed L.M.J.M. (Louisa Matilda Jane Montagu).

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Photograph of the Chorapic [Choragic] Monument of Lysicrates, formerly called the Lantern of Diogenes, on the left, with the ruins of the house where Lord Byron lived. Athens.

Scope and Contents Unfinished essay entitled 'The Bards and Bardism of the Highlands', written by Alexander Carmichael over several sessions. Carmichael makes comparisons between noted Gaelic poets such as William Ross [Uilleam Ros] and Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair [Alexander MacDonald] and Robert Burns and Lord Byron. He asserts that some of the finest poetry written in English has come from the Gaelic tradition. He refers to the importance of poetry in society citing the loss of Gaelic manuscripts by...