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1. A philosopher giving lectures on the use of the globes [graphic]
- Creator:
- Lodge, John, -1796, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1769?]
- Call Number:
- 769.00.00.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lectures: philosophical lectures -- Furniture: bookshelves -- Spyglasses -- Literature: allusion to Aristotle, 348-322 B.C. -- Globes -- Astronomy -- Animals: goats -- Natural philosophy.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A philosopher giving lectures on the use of the globes [graphic]
2. 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. Comparison of the opinions of Mr. Burke and Mons. Rousseau, on government reform, and strictures on the answers to Mr. Burke
- Published / Created:
- MDCCXCI [1791]
- Call Number:
- 53 B92 C73
- Image Count:
- 31
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- BEIN College Pamphlets 1959 3: 21 cm. From the library of Samuel Parr. With half-title of another pamphlet attached: Vindication of Burke's Revolution in France (1791)., Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ [H]²., Ms. note on title page identifies author as Captain Bentinck., Ms. note on wrapper: "Capt. Bentinck read at Bowdon, June 14, 1850"., and Original wrappers.
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Lowndes, No. 66 Drury-Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Great Britain, Europe, Europe., France., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Political and social views, Politics and government, and Political science
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comparison of the opinions of Mr. Burke and Mons. Rousseau, on government reform, and strictures on the answers to Mr. Burke
4. The savage man [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1767]
- Call Number:
- 767.01.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date based on an announcement in The Public advertiser, January 30, 1767., Publication date in Stephens: August 1766., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Quarrels: Hume vs. Rousseau, 1766 -- Bludgeons -- Canes: handle in shape of fox's head -- Animals: monkeys -- Physicians -- Medical instruments: clyster pipe -- Savages -- Food: dinner -- Literature: allusion to The origin of inequality by J.J. Rousseau -- Literature: Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau, by David Hume -- Peter the Wild Boy, fl. 1767., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Voltaire, 1694-1778, and Tronchin, Théodore, 1709-1781
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The savage man [graphic].
5. Travels in a series of letters from a gentleman to his father, in the years 1787, 88, & 89, [ca. 1791-1792].
- 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].
6. [Collection of songs and piano pieces]
- Creator:
- Norfolk, Lady Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower) Howard, duchess of, 1788-1870, creator
- Published / Created:
- [?1811-1823]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 20
- Image Count:
- 271
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 166 pieces copied by the Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Countess of Surrey), in five languages. Pages 73 and 75 are the index and title page of an earlier copybook, dated 1811, bound together with the rest. Writers and composers copied include: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), John Gay (1685-1732), Giuseppe Marco Maria Blangini (1781-1841), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), David Perez (1711-[1779]), Giuseppe Millico (1739-1802), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), Martin Pierre D'Alvimare (1772-1839), Chas. Henri Plantade (1764-1839), George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), and Anselm Faidit.
- Description:
- Holograph.
- Subject (Name):
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Blangini, Felice, 1781-1841, Dalvimare, Martin Pierre, 1772-1839, Gaucelm Faidit, fl. 1156-1209, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Millico, Giuseppe, 1739-1802, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Perez, David, 1711-1778, Plantade, Charles Henri, 1764-1839, and Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Subject (Topic):
- Piano music--19th century and Songs --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of songs and piano pieces]
