| Description | (Includes notes on anatomy lectures; drafts of letters, including one to the author's father; and some watercolour and pencil sketches. One of the letters includes the following reflections [possibly intended for his father]: 'It is a pleasant sight to see Father and his Children live in Unity, Love and Peace - But how is it possible for them to agree when their minds and passions are so much alike - it is like adding fuel to fire, the more you add the more it burns. You from this short comparison must be aware of my unwilling ruse of staying at home. I know my irritable fits of Temper - my passion - my carelessness in every thing, my listlessness and inattention. This is not an ideal representation of my own state - but truth indeed.' Also states 'the greater part of the inhabitants of Chatham [Kent] to be of that low dispicable [sic] and radical set which no man of any enlightened character can possibly appreciate or vallue [sic]. And up to the present time I hold them among the lowest of the illiterate class, whose liberality is only a false pretension - and whose manners are a mere bagatelle'. Inscribed 1827 inside the front cover, but no other dates.) |