Journal describing tours of parts of England, January-August 1831, by Thomas Letts, with illustrations, sketches and maps.
The volume consists of excursions to Birmingham, 26-[30] January 1831, mainly to inspect various factories and canals (ff. 1-36 verso); and to Cambridge to visit his brother John at Sydney [i.e. Sidney Sussex] College, 20-[28] February 1831 (ff. 37-59 verso); brief excursions to Sevenoaks, Kent, 7-8 May 1831 (ff. 60-70), and to Windsor, Berkshire, 2-[4] July 1831 (ff. 70 verso-90 verso); and a tour of Coventry, Warwick, Birmingham, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Derby, [17]-22 August 1831 (ff. 91-137 verso). The volume includes eighteen full-page illustrations in pencil, watercolour and wash, mostly original and a few derivative; twenty-one smaller diagrams and sketches in ink and pencil (the majority on ff. 8 verso-34 verso passim), and ten manuscript strip maps in ink and watercolour, all relating to the final tour (ff. 95, 106, 113, 128, 133). Pasted into the volume are a printed map of England and Wales (ff. xii verso-xiii), and printed street maps of Birmingham, 1829 (tipped in on f. xiii verso), and Cambridge (ff. 42 verso-43).