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Lake District.- Journal of a Short Tour Made to the Lake Distict in 1853, autograph manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, original blind-stamped black morocco, lacks clasp, sm. 8vo, 1853.

⁂ An account of a tour to the Lake District by a young woman travelling with her sister, Adelaide and her brother Richard with his dog, Brenda. They climb Helvellyn, getting caught in a snowstorm on their descent, and make visits to sketch their surroundings, collecting rock specimens and hunting for ferns (a favourite occupation of Richard's). Most large residences are observed, unlike Brougham Hall which is characterized as "a very dark melancholy place". Wastdale, "a very primitive little place", has a clergyman with "only fifty pounds a year", his daughters obliged to work out in the fields "reaping, haymaking, &c &c just like common labourers".

Lot 182

Lake District.- SJournal of a Short Tour Made to the Lake District in 1853, autograph manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, original blind-stamped black morocco, lacks clasp, sm. 8vo, 1853.  

Hammer Price: £260

Description

Lake District.- Journal of a Short Tour Made to the Lake Distict in 1853, autograph manuscript, 80pp. excluding blanks, original blind-stamped black morocco, lacks clasp, sm. 8vo, 1853.

⁂ An account of a tour to the Lake District by a young woman travelling with her sister, Adelaide and her brother Richard with his dog, Brenda. They climb Helvellyn, getting caught in a snowstorm on their descent, and make visits to sketch their surroundings, collecting rock specimens and hunting for ferns (a favourite occupation of Richard's). Most large residences are observed, unlike Brougham Hall which is characterized as "a very dark melancholy place". Wastdale, "a very primitive little place", has a clergyman with "only fifty pounds a year", his daughters obliged to work out in the fields "reaping, haymaking, &c &c just like common labourers".

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