Impressionistic description of 18th-century London, its greatly varying urban buildings, people, and street and social life
A Discription of London by a Lady
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 47
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1750
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- Single folded leaf Pro Patria watermark. One couplet is divided between 1st and 2nd page. Some mis-spellings, e.g. "Palaceses", uncorrected; hastily written, probably a copy. Second page has letters cut into, and the first has the fold touching some initial letters of lines. Some minor tears across this fold.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The author of the poem is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Falkner Greirson, October 1975
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html