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- 1832 (Creation)
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iii, 155 ff. ; 190 x 130 mm.
Half leather and marbled paper over boards; blind tooling on spine; 'EXCURSIONS', 'THOMAS LETTS' and '1832' (in gold on spine).
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Journal of a tour in North Wales, August-September 1832, by Thomas Letts, with his companion Thomas Boyce, including sixty-nine full-page illustrations in pencil, watercolour and wash, some original and some derivative.
The journal commences with a description of the journey by coach, train and ship from London to Bangor, via Manchester and Liverpool, 23-25 August (ff. 2-20). Starting in Bangor the North Wales tour included visits to Conway, Capel Curig, Llanberis Pass, Snowdon, Beddgelert, Tanybwlch, Maentwrog, Trawsfynydd, Dolgellau, Cader Idris, Bala, Corwen and Llangollen, 25 August-1 September (ff. 20-142). The travellers then returned to London via Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Birmingham and Oxford (ff. 142-152). A 'Synopsis of Expenses, &c.' is on ff. 153 verso-154.
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Charles Letts & Co., Letts Keep a Diary: An Exhibition of the History of Diary Keeping in Great Britain from 16th-20th Century in Commemoration of 175 Years of Diary Publishing by Letts (London, 1987), pp. 58-59.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21690B.
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