Description

Summary: A bound notebook of 'The Devizes Miscellany' of essays by local residents, containing No 13 (1837) (also marked Vol 3, No 1) and No 14 (1838) (also marked Vol II, No 2), together with a note outlining the proposal to establish a manuscript magazine or 'miscellany of literature and science' for circulation to contributors and regulations for same, several letters, circulation slip and list of Contributors (pasted inside front cover), and containing: A Family Dialogue (loose insert); On Mermaids; Ishmael; The Secret Mission; Queries for Consideration; A Tale of Ancient Athens (contd); On the Love of Hypothesis; Philosophy and Geology; (a Note to Correspondents); On the Vigour of the Imagination; Recollections of old Christmas Customs; The Secret Mission (concluded); An Enigma; Remarks on Music (3rd article); Introduction of Agriculture into Kamschatka; A Tale of Ancient Athens (contd); Nayti, a New Zealand Chief (with pencil drawing); probably the initiative and compilation of William Cunnington II/1837 and 1838