Marbled notebook, red spine and corners (6 1/2" x 9"): 146pp + leaves a-e at front,...

Marbled notebook, red spine and corners (6 1/2" x 9"): 146pp + leaves a-e at front, MS. Contains sketches, notes for Salmonia and Consolations in Travel, poetry.

Includes

Pp.a-e sketches

P.1 poem: Fontainbleau; 29 December 1813

P.2 poem: Mont Blanc; 5 January 1814

Pp.2-3 poem: Banks of the Rhone; 6 January

P.3 poem: Pont de Guardon; 7 January 1813

Pp.4-5 poem: The Mediterranean Pine; Montpelier, 14 January 1814

Pp.5-6 poem: The Canigon; 26 January

P.7 poem: Vaucluse

P.8 poem: Carrara

Pp.10-12 draft poem

Pp.13-14 poem: Dies irae, 17 June 1826 - "Nine years, a joy, a pure delight".

P.16 measurements of fish, 1828

P.17 prose passage: "A billow in a stormy sea".

P.19 sketch of fish

Pp.21-22 sketches: fish and landscape

Pp.29-34 Dialogue 5. The Chemical Philosopher: draft [pp.29-32 in another hand]

Pp.35-53 Dialogue 6: Pola or Time; draft

Pp.55-56 Title page for Philosophical Consolations in Travel, Rome, 21 February 1829.

Pp.59-84 Dialogue 6: Pola or Time; draft

Pp.86-100 Notes for additions to Salmonia

Pp.102-108 Journal for April 1 & 2, 1825 and 1826: about shooting game birds, and philosophical notes

P.110 geological notes; sketch

P.112 note on nitre

P.114 note on powder for shooting

Pp.116-144 philosophical and geological notes, and sketches

P.146 calculations