| Description | Notebook inscribed on cover by Murchison: "A few memoranda between foxhunting days, works and thoughts in England 1822-23 (my period of transition from dillenttanti-ism [sic] and before I turned to Science)."
Melton to Up Park [Uppark], 27 November 1822 to 18 May 1823:
27 November 1822, Melton [Leics]: notes and comments on 'Europe' by 'A citizen of the United States' thought to be by Erskine (actually by Alexander Hill Everett) (p1); 'Lettres sur la Sicile' by le Marquis de Foresta en 1805, Paris 1821 (p3); Edinburgh Review 74, art. 10 'Partitions' - three articles/sections on the recent political history of Poland (p4); 7 January 1823, Melton: notes made chapter by chapter on 'Vestiges of ancient manners and customs in Italy and Sicily', Revd. John James Blunt (p12); comments and notes on The Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by Roscoe (p27); comments on 'Werner', 'Lord Byron's New Tragedy' (p31); 'Don Carlos', 'Lord John Russell's Tragedy' (p.31); 26 January, Melton: comments on work by Dibdin, possibly concerning paintings at Althorp (mentions Titian, Peter Lely, Sir Joshua [Reynolds?]) (p32); 8 May: list of paintings in Lord Stafford's Gallery, 72 Piccadilly, London, including by Titian, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Tintoretto, Rubens (p33); 15-18 May: Up Park [Uppark] [W. Sussex]: notes relating to Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh (owner of Uppark at the time), including a long passage on Lady Hamilton and her life (pp37-41); [pp42-84 blank]; lists of books, mostly French poetry (p85). |