England to Rome & Naples.- [Journal of a tour to Rome & Naples to visit Lord Hastings], manuscript, 191pp., slightly browned, original half calf, rubbed, lacks spine, sm. 4to, 10th February - 2nd April 1824; and another, a c. 1900 journal of a visit to the Alps, with watercolours, sm. 4to (2).

⁂ The journal of an agent from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, of William Eaton Mousley, solicitor, of Derby, delivering letters to Lord Hastings, Governor of Malta, in Rome and later Naples. "[Rome]. At 9 I accompanied Lord Hastings and family to an assembly at the Duke de Saval the French Ambassador and heard some of the finest singers in Italy: - it was a complete squeeze, 700 persons present, a magnificent suite of rooms richly ornamented with mirrors, and adorned by choice Pictures and Statues, many of the Cardinals were there as Concerts are allowed during Lent. [Naples]. I then descended to Resina [Ercolano] for the purpose of seeing Herculaneum... I descended with a Torch, a Staircase for 80 feet into the Theatre which is very extensive and has furnished many valuables it is quite entire and was filled up with Lava, which increased the difficulty of excavating, the proscennium and pavement are adorned with beautiful marbles, the corridors and seats of the consuls are open some of the streets are opened but the excavations are stopped."

Mousley, d. 1853, was a prominent solicitor in the town of Derby and a partner in the firm of Mousley and Barber. He was a magistrate and Alderman, and owner of a substantial amount of local property. He was Mayor of Derby from 1845-47.