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Extracts and translations from English, French, German, and Italian prose and verse, made by Maria Elizabeth Thomas during her travels in France, Belgium and Italy, 1819-1825, with an index (ff. 138-47 verso) and two untitled rough pencil sketches (ff. 150-1).

Notes by Maria Elizabeth Thomas on world history, ancient and modern, from secondary sources.

Continuation of notes from MS 21837D, with brief remarks on some of the principal German authors (ff. 53 verso-54, 55 verso-57) and the vestments of bishops (ff. 58-59).

Journal of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, describing a tour in Holland, Germany, Bohemia, and Belgium, 1820s, including a list of places visited (ff. 81-82) and a list of hotels (f. 87 recto-verso), with typescript satirical verses addressed to 'O.B.J.' pasted inside the back cover.

Journal of Maria Elizabeth Thomas, containing a description of her travels in Italy, 1820, visiting Genoa, Sienna and Florence; a translation from the Italian of Act 1 of Alfieri's tragedy, Philip II; and a transcript of a story in German; with an engraving of Whichelo's 'Destruction of Jerusalem' [watermark 1822] pasted inside the back cover.

Journals of a tour in Wales and the English Midlands [1827], and in Ireland, 1826, by Maria Elizabeth Thomas, including rough pencil sketches of Dundrum Castle, Co. Down (f. 1), and Pwllheli and Llanbedrog, Caernarfonshire (ff. 54 verso, 55 verso), with a list, in a later hand, of German and Italian postage stamps, 1851-1876, pasted inside the back cover.