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Journal of a tour from Brecon to Carmarthen, undertaken in August 1844, by an unidentified traveller, possibly from London, including references to Hay-on-Wye (ff. 3 verso-4).

Journal, attributed to Major-General William Brooke of Bath, describing a tour of counties Pembroke, Carmarthen and Glamorgan, July-November 1819.

Journal, 1830 (watermark [18]28), of a tour primarily of Pembrokeshire, the Lake District and Edinburgh by an un-named Cornishman, in the company of his niece Anne Kendall of Lostwithiel.
The volume begins with a retrospective recounting of the journey from Lostwithiel, Cornwall, to Bath, Somerset, 5-29 [recte 10] April 1830 (ff. 1-4 verso). The journal proper begins in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 7 July (f. 11) and continues with excursions and tours to Pembroke, Haverfordwest, Solva, St Davids and elsewhere within the county, 7-26 July (ff. 11-62 verso), followed by the journey through parts of mid and north Wales and north west England, 27 July-5 August (ff. 63-65 verso), the Lake District, 5-8 August (ff. 65 verso-70), and the Southern Uplands of Scotland, 9-12 August (ff. 71-76), ending in Edinburgh and its environs, 12-30 August (ff. 76-91 verso). The journal includes descriptions of the Stackpole, Orielton, Slebech and Picton Castle estates (ff. 14-15 verso, 19-20, 22-23, 25 recto-verso, 26-27 verso), St Mary's Church, Haverfordwest (ff. 29 verso-33), and the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral at St Davids (ff. 42 verso-50) and an eyewitness account of the launch of the frigate HMS Seahorse at Pembroke on 21 July (ff. 57 verso-58 verso). The writer is presumably one of Anne Kendall's four uncles then living, namely the Rev. Francis John Hext (1779-1842), Captain William Hext (1780-1866), James Cotes Kendall (1770-1836) or the Rev. Nicholas Kendall (1781-1844).

Journal of Gertrude J. Stratton describing a tour of Chester and North Wales, August-September 1865, illustrated with contemporary engravings.

Journal of Charles H. New, Norwich, describing a tour of North Wales, August-September 1871, illustrated with contemporary engravings, photographs, one original pencil sketch (f. 40 verso), pressed plants and route map.

Journal of a tour of North and Central Wales from July to September 1810 by the Reverend Corbet Hue (ca. 1770-1838), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, illustrated with ink drawings and rough pencil sketches and including a map showing his itinerary.

An account of a tour of North Wales, August-September 1860, by John [ ] of Bath, in the form of letters to his parents, together with a pencil sketch of 'My Villa [Snowdon House] at Llanberis' (f. 1).

Journal of William Foyl, Liverpool, describing a tour in counties Caernarfon and Anglesey, 12 September-9 October 1857, illustrated with coloured engravings.

A journal describing a tour in North Wales, preceded by a visit to London and Oxford, 18 August - 30 September 1860, by an unidentified lady, a resident of Boughspring, Tidenham, co. Gloucester; the journal is illustrated with engravings and pressed plants.

Journal of Mary Anne Eade describing a tour, May-June 1802, from Clapton through North Wales to Ireland, with an explanatory note, 1803, by her husband William Eade (f. ii).

Journal of a walking tour in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire made in August and September 1884 by the geologist Dr Edward Greenly, later of Llandegfan, Anglesey, and described by him in his memoirs, A Hand through Time, 2 vols (London, 1938), I, 104-7. The journal includes four maps and is illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings, the one on p. 194 of the journal, entitled 'Llyn-y-Gader', being reproduced as plate XVI in A Hand Through Time. A few annotations and corrections were added by Greenly in 1935 and 1939.

Journal of a tour of North Wales, 17 May - 2 June 1826, with sketches by the unidentified author.

The first of two volumes of a journal of a tour in North Wales made in August and September 1837 by an unidentified traveller from Harrogate, Yorkshire, the second volume not being present but the itinerary summarised on pp. 64-65.

Journal of a tour in North Wales and the Borders by Samuel Linder of London and his wife, Susannah, in August and September 1859, illustrated with engravings and lithographs, 1842-[1850s], and including pressed flowers and ferns collected on the tour.

Manuscript journal of a tour of New York State and the Niagara Peninsula, Upper Canada (now Ontario), 15 August-1 September 1816, written by a Welsh Old Etonian, possibly Pierce Wynne Yorke.
The writer and his companion (identified only as Richard, see ff. 18 and 45) leave New York City on 15 August 1816 (f. 1) and travel by steamer and wagon up the Hudson River valley (ff. 1-10 verso) to Albany, staying there 17-20 August (ff. 10 verso-16); they then continue overland, visiting Utica, 21-[23] August (ff. 21-24 verso), the Finger Lakes (ff. 28 verso-33 verso), and Buffalo, 28-29 August (ff. 35 verso, 38 verso). After crossing the Niagara River into Upper Canada they visit Niagara Falls, 29 August-1 September (ff. 40 verso-45), and continue to Newark [Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario] on 1 September (f. 45 verso). The volume contains frequent references to their accommodation, travel arrangements and the often unseasonable weather (1816 being the so called 'Year without a Summer'), as well as descriptions of the scenery and flora, agricultural practices, Indigenous Americans, American manners and politics and the effects of the War of 1812. Also included, in pencil, are a verse on Col. Cecil Bisshopp (inside front cover), brief accounts of bills paid (f. i) and mostly illegible notes apparently relating to the contents of the journal (inside back cover). The author is not named but evidently has close connections with North Wales (see ff. 4 recto-verso, 5 verso, 27 verso, 28 verso-29 verso, 45), is an Old Etonian and a schoolfriend of Bisshopp, whose grave he visits at Lundy's Lane, Niagara (see f. 44); Pierce (or Peirce) Wynne Yorke of Dyffryn Aled appears to be the most plausible candidate.

Nine notebooks containing journals, 1845-1863, kept by Lady Marianne Lewis, of tours on the Continent and in Scotland, the earlier ones in the company of her husband Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court.
The journals contain accounts of tours in Belgium, Germany, Bohemia, Austria and France, 5 September-14 November 1845 (16583iC, ff. 1-48); Paris, 15 November-17 December 1845 (16583iiC, ff. 49-62); Scotland, 27 August-14 October 1848 (16583iiiC, ff. 79-108); Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France, 8 June-31 July 1851 (16583ivC, ff. 111-135); Bohemia, Austria, Slovenia, Northern Italy, the South of France and Paris, 24 June-5 November 1855 (16583vC, ff. 136-177); Rome and Florence, 9 October 1856-11 January 1857 (16583viC, ff. 184-224); Rome and Naples, 26 November 1857-8 May 1858 (16583viiC, ff. 227-258); Switzerland, 30 July-27 September 1859, and Germany, 22 July-15 September 1860 (16583viiiC, ff. 273-293 verso); Austria and Switzerland, 22 August-3 October 1861, and Switzerland and Northern Italy, 23 July-4 November 1863 (16583ixC, ff. 295-316).

Journal of two tours in North Wales by Charles Edward Rawlins (1811-1884) of Liverpool, merchant and political writer, in June 1866 and September 1868, accompanied on the first by Isaac Bancroft Cooke and Samuel Bulley, both cotton brokers of Liverpool, and on the second by his wife and children, including his son, Herbert, whose later signature appears on f. i. Two maps showing the itineraries are included, and the second tour (ff. 27-110 verso) is illustrated with engravings, [1850s]-[1860s].

Journal of John Matthews of Birmingham, describing a tour which he made through France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria from May to October 1842 with his wife, Hannah Maria Matthews (1799?-1890) (ff. 1-86), and their tour in Wales, May to September 1844 (ff. 88-127), the latter section being illustrated with engravings, 1841-1842.