| Description | Album described in bookseller's notes as "Philosophical 'pensees' by a Derbyshire man. c1840? Moralizing on the institutions of Church and state he shows himself a disaffected man. There is a short criticism of 'Miss Browning's poems', as well as a page on Lord Byron with several poems. Also poems presumably by the author of this book". Volume as described, a collection of writings in a single hand. Many blank pages. The first passage mentions a journey from Osmaston Hall in Derbyshire, and the volume was catalogued by St Clair as the 'Owner of Oswaston[sic] Hall', but it is not clear whether the author was the owner or a visitor. Initialled on the front pastedown "JEB" - perhaps Juliana Elizabeth Byron, a relative of the Wilmot family who owned Osmaston Hall? |