Notes of Travel, a Vade Mecum

Handwritten volume titled: "Notes of Travel. Traveller's Vade Mecum. Clothes, Tools, Natural History & General Stores & Apparatus", compiled by James Collins. 508 ff, bound in brown leather bearing the inscription "J C".

The volume consists of numerous published booklets, advertisements, clippings from published travel guides, photographs, illustrations, and cartes de visite, all bound and pasted together with handwritten notes from the following sources:

R B Marcy, The Prairie Traveller: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions

W B Lord, At Home in the Wilderness

G J Wolseley, The Soldier's Pocket Book

T Baines & W B Lord, Shifts of Camp Site

C A Gordon, The Soldier's Manual of Sanitation

Beeton, Birdsnests and Bird Stuffing

Gardner, Animal Stuffing

Francis Galton, The Art of Travel

Smithsonian Institute Hints to Travellers

Admiralty Manual

Steven, Directions in Natural History

H A Leveson [writing as "The Old Shekarry"], Wrinkles: or, hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment and camp life

Other books by H A Leveson [known as "Shek", "Shekarry"].

The volume has a page labelled "Contents" which is otherwise blank, and also features annotations referring to layout and printing options.

c1871

1 volume plus enclosures

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.