Parte No. 4a - Cutting from a newspaper, containing verses by Thomas Mott entitled ‘Lines written near the Ruins of a Monastery’

(On the page to which this is pasted is a note by Dawson Turner, dated 6 Mar. 1840.)

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Transcript of note

Tho[ma]s Mott, the author of the above, was a correspondent of mine in early life; but of his letters I appear to have preserved none. He was clerk to Ja[me]s Sayers at Yarmouth, & afterwards practised as an attorney at Cambridge, where he brought a sad career to a premature end. We made a tour to Derbyshire together in 1795. He was a man of quick talents, with considerable taste for poetry, & still more for drawing Caricatures.

D.T. Mar. 6. 1840.

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Letters omitted from words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.