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Commonplace Book - Extracts by Charles Lyell - Prose and Verse, 1826
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Identifier: Coll-203/A2/5
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...
Dates:
1826
Stitched booklet titled "To My Beloved" containing poems and prose on the subject of love in the hand of Louisa Matilda Crawford, 1 January 1822
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Identifier: Coll-1839/6/1
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1 January 1822
The Chorapic [Choragic] Monument of Lysicrates, formerly called the Lantern of Diogenes..., 21 October 1851
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Identifier: Coll-20/1/9/5
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
21 October 1851