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Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

Creator:
Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
Call Number:
OSB MSS 129
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
72
Abstract:
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

3.
Comte de Namur dresse sur les memoirs les plus nouveaux presente a sa Majeste pour le service de

Creator:
Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712
Published / Created:
1692
Call Number:
1984 Folio 3
Collection Title:
Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement remarques les empires
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic):
France. and Switzerland
Subject (Topic):
Atlases --Early works to 1800 and Atlases, French.
Collection Created:
A Paris : Chez Hubert Iaillot ioignant les Grands Augustins aux deux Globes, 1692
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Comte de Namur dresse sur les memoirs les plus nouveaux presente a sa Majeste pour le service de ses troupes par le service de ses troupes par le service de ses troupes ...

4.
David M. Little, Jr.

Creator:
Yale University News Bureau
Published / Created:
January 1951
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
"A demonstration on the use of medical instruments given by David M. Little, Jr. (second from the left), Clinical Instructor in Anesthesiology." The woman to the right is Jeannette Schulz, a 3rd year medical student at Yale.
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Little, David Mason, Jr., 1921-1981, Yale University. School of Medicine. Department of Anesthesiology, and Yale University. School of Medicine. Department of Surgery
Subject (Topic):
Anesthesiologists and Faculty, Medical
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > David M. Little, Jr.

5.
Dondem Turgow

Call Number:
Bs5 +548sb
Collection Title:
Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Volckern chronicwurdiger Thaaten beschreibung ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
p. CCCXXXVIII [338]
Subject (Geographic):
Germany and Switzerland
Collection Created:
Zurych : In der Froschow, 1586
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dondem Turgow

6.
Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks

Creator:
Hincks, John, 1788-1842
Call Number:
Osborn d408
Container / Volume:
Volume 1
Image Count:
98
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823, The brothers spent extended periods in Naples, Rome, Florence and Vienna; the journal records their sightseeing, their opinions of works of art and architecture, and the daily events of travel. Supplied with an introduction to William Richard Hamilton, the English ambassador and antiquary, they remained in Naples for three weeks, attending concerts, balls, and conversazioni, exploring the local antiquities, and climbing Vesuvius, Following their departure from Naples they spent a month in Rome, visiting museums, galleries, and the studios of Canova and Thorvaldsen; returned to Florence, where they met William Etty copying a Titian at the Uffizi; marveled at the new Simplon Road into Switzerland; and returned to England via Vienna and the Low Countries, Original annotated on front pastedown with title and note: "note upon the above (made on the day below written) Given to me by me (sic) dearest brother John Hincks, now no more.' T. C. Hincks, August 12, 1844.", Fair copy contains tipped-in portrait engraving of Francis Joseph Charles, Duc de Reichstadt, and laid-in advertising card for the hotel of Pooters and Decoster, Amsterdam, and With: 5 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from Thomas Hincks; 2 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from John Finkett-Maddock; autograph letters, signed, to Hincks from Rector R. Massin; notes, printed ephemera related to later members of the Hincks family; and a manuscript copy of "the Order of Sessions Made the 11th day of Jan.y 1827."
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks and written by John Hincks, 1823

7.
Les Etats de Savoye et de Piemont

Creator:
Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1648-1708
Published / Created:
1691
Call Number:
1984 Folio 3
Collection Title:
Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement remarques les empires
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic):
France. and Switzerland
Subject (Topic):
Atlases --Early works to 1800 and Atlases, French.
Collection Created:
A Paris : Chez Hubert Iaillot ioignant les Grands Augustins aux deux Globes, 1692
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les Etats de Savoye et de Piemont

8.
Memoranda, from a journal of tours made upon the Continent at various periods beginning in 1821

Creator:
Kenah, E. A., Mrs
Call Number:
Osborn fd74
Image Count:
105
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Burrell, Walter, 1777-1831., Kenah, Thomas, Lt. Col., and Sgricci, Tommaso, 1789-1836.
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoranda, from a journal of tours made upon the Continent at various periods beginning in 1821, with illustrations sketched upon the spot, 1821-1836

10.
Travels in a series of letters from a gentleman to his father, in the years 1787, 88, & 89, [ca

Creator:
Watkins, Thomas, 1761-1829
Call Number:
Osborn c569
Image Count:
177
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript text of twelve letters from Watkins to his father, Pennoyre Watkins, describing his travels in the Low Countries, France, Spain and Switzerland in 1787. The manuscript contains corrections, addenda and several notes for a printer, and is apparently the text of "his Travels in France and Spain....suppressed" in the 1792 publication of Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily..... Versions of Letters 11 and 12 in this manuscript appeared as Letters I and II in the first edition of Travels and Watkins' letters give a full account of places, sights and people encountered on his travels with his friend, George Pocock, and include his horror at the sight of galley slaves in Bordeaux; his dislike of Spanish theater and his "shudder" in the offices of the Inquisition in Barcelona; his admiration of Mont Blanc and Chamonix; and his conclusion that Rousseau's description of the Vallais was "a deception passed upon travellers."
Description:
Title from front cover (repeated on first page as "title page")., Spine title: "Travels.", Signed on back cover: "Hughes. Brecon 1861.", and Binding: contemporary vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, France, Spain, and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Pocock, George., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, and Watkins, Pennoyre.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travels in a series of letters from a gentleman to his father, in the years 1787, 88, & 89, [ca. 1791-1792].

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