A set of six early notebooks, established by Lyell to record prose, verse, and his travels, including: a trip through Europe in 1818 with his father, mother and his two older sisters; and detailing tours with William Buckland (Kinnordy 1819, Paris 1823), and Prévost (Cornwall 1824), where Lyell meets Mary Anning. The notebooks vary in format and use, pages are unnumbered, and there are no indexes. In the travel sections, dates are given throughout, and the route is given at the top of every page.