Item 12.7 - Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'Foreign Common-Place Book. Journal in Switzerland and North Italy'

1 vol., c. 235 x 195 x 28 mm. Paginated 1-369 (pp. 201, 257-260, 313, 233-236 cut out, unnumbered extra page between pp. 283-285).

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a note on how to refer to this volume. Notes to self on facing page on how to keep the book, on the separation of English and foreign authors in commonplace books etc.

The contents list names the following writers or sections, with page numbers: 'La Henriade' [Voltaire]; 'List of the most eminent French poets'; 'Miscellaneous Verse'; 'Miscellaneous Prose'; 'Memoires de Sully'; 'Cardinal de Retz's Memoirs'; 'Caractères de la Bruyere'; 'Eloge de Massillon'; 'List of French preacher and divines'; 'Corinne' [de Staël]; 'Contes Moraux de Marmontel'; 'Memoires sur Josephine'; 'Schlegel sur la langue et la literature Provencale'; 'Voltaire. Catalogue des Ecrivains'; 'Montesquieu's letters and discourse'; 'Rousseau'; 'Memorandua of tours upon the continent - French and Italian phrases - Rules for learning foreign languages - Expenses of journeys, times and distances &c &C. Observations on the rules of French and Italian grammar'; List of the most eminent Italian prose writers and poets'; 'List of the most authentic French works relating to the times of Henri IV'

'Index to memoranda of tours on the Continent from July 2nd 1833 to November 19th 1834 and in other years [including visits to Belgium and Germany in 1837]' written on out on p. 242

Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations frequently added here.

• English
• French
• Italian