Diary: walking tour

Diary of a pedestrian excursion through Devonshire. Author's holograph MS. This MS. has apparently been part of a larger volume. The first unnumbered leaf contains an entry headed: 'Distances travelled over during pedestrian excursion through the counties of Middlesex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Somersetshire, and Devonshire, in the Months of November, December, January 1834 & 5. 468 miles'. The tour described in this fragment began on 26 December, 1834 from Ilfracombe to Plymouth, which was reached on 17 January, 1835. The last entry is dated 1 February of that year.

1834-1835

1 l. + 50 pp. 4to. 23 x 18 cm. Unbound.

Presented 1907.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).