Journal of two tours in Great Britain made by Charles Octavius Morgan, FSA
Reference code
MOA/04
Title
Journal of two tours in Great Britain made by Charles Octavius Morgan, FSA
Date
1820, 1821
Level of description
series
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iii + 39.
Quarto.
Reversed calf binding. Signature of Octavius Morgan, 29 Aug. 1820, fol. i.
Quarto.
Reversed calf binding. Signature of Octavius Morgan, 29 Aug. 1820, fol. i.
Scope and content
Journal of two tours in Great Britain made by Charles Octavius Morgan, FSA (1803-88), with members of his family; As follows:- (1) 'Tour to the North of England commenced, Monday, August, 28th, & ended September, 24th.. 1820' (fol. iii). Tour made with his father (Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Bt.), brother George and sister Angelina. Mentions manufactures, architecture, people met, travel incidents. fols. iii, 1-20;- (2) 'Journal of a tour through North Wales - 1821' (fol. 20v). Tour with his father Sir Charles Morgan and his sister Angelina; commenced 24 Aug. 1821. Includes descriptions of landscape, social events and attendance at the Eisteddfod at Carnarvon. fols. 20v-39v.
Creator
Morgan, Charles Octavius Swinnerton (1803-1888), MP and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/680
Archival history
Presented, in 1894, in accordance with the wishes of Henry Salusbury Milman, Director SA (d. 1893), nephew of Octavius Morgan (fol.ii). See Proc., 2nd ser., 15 (1893-5), 153, 157-8.
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