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Commonplace Book - Extracts by Charles Lyell - Prose and Verse, 1826
Item
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
Manuscript notes, 9 May 1747
Item
Identifier: Coll-2023/2/4
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes dated "May 9. 1747”, containing a list clothes in French, and quotes in Ancient Greek.
Dates:
9 May 1747
Related items, early-mid 18th century
Series
Identifier: Coll-2023/2
Scope and Contents
This series consists of four related items: a manuscript letter from Sir John Pringle (1707-1782), two manuscript poems, and some manuscript notes in French and Ancient Greek.
Dates:
early-mid 18th century