Holograph journal of the author’s naval service from 1845 to 1861, with some verses dated 1867. The volume begins with a summary of his service on the HMS Seaflower, sailing between Jersey and northern France, as well as on the steam ship Sidon. He then describes his service on the HMS Orestes, with which he sails to Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Mauritius. He mentions the weather and routine ship duties, as well as shoots gazelles and hippopotami and chases various vessels, including a number of slave ships. On November 19, 1851, they begin to chase a brig, but gives up when it hoists American colors; in January 1852, they chase and take the Maryanne, a brig from Havana equipped for the slave trade, whose crew the writer describes as all seeming to be "hardened slavers." The manuscript also contains his subsequent appointments on the HMS Excellent and HMS Terrible, and further naval service in Cornwallis, Brunswick, and Cambridge; as well as extensive records of his activities on land, in which he describes primarily routine social events, such as visits to his aunt Sarah and other friends; subscribing to the library; dancing; and flute lessons.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel and Great Britain --Social life and customs --19th century
Subject (Name):
Baines, Matthew Talbot, 1799-1860, Bosquet, Pierre, 1810-1870, Great Britain. Royal Navy --Diaries, Great Britain. Royal Navy --Sea life, Jones-Parry, John Parry, 1829-1920, Samwell, William, b. 1832, and Windham, Charles Ash, Sir, 1810-1870
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, Pen drawing, Poetry, English --19th century, Sailors --Great Britain --Diaries, Sentimentalism in literature, Slave trade --Africa, East, and Women authors
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of twelve sonnets addressed to the author's beloved, and address such topics as the beloved's figure, eyes, the book of love, and time spent away from the beloved. Throughout, love is figured as nature, and the writer imagines himself in various scenes of nature as he describes his love. Most of the sonnets are dated. The volume also contains two detailed pen drawings, one illustrating a house and its environs; and another of a figure of a grim reaper in a garden being watched by a young boy.
Description:
Binding: patterned paper. Pasted on cover: Sonnets. August --- October, --- 1870.---- By Walter Crane., Blind-embossed on title page: Ivory., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Title from title page., and Walter Crane (August 15, 1845-March 14, 1915), son of Thomas Crane (1808-1859), a portrait painter, was an English artist and book illustrator. Considered one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif in the genre of 19th century English children's illustrated literature, his work featured child-in-the-garden motifs.
Subject (Name):
Crane, Walter,--1845-1915
Subject (Topic):
English poetry,--19th century, Love--Poetry, Nature--Poetry, Pen drawing, and Sonnets, English
Album in which 22 portrait and other drawings have been mounted. Most are in ink and wash on paper, but a few are pencil or pen and ink on paper. Some are initialled or signed and dated by Stukeley.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Art, English--18th century, Artists, Brush drawing, Drawing, English--18th century, and Pen drawing
