| Description | Indexed. Contains essays from 1852 - 1853, including the 'Essay Meeting Alphabet', a humorous illustrated alphabet showing the various proceedings of Essay Society Meetings, and an essay entitled 'On the Essay Society Proceedings'. Also includes 'The Log of the Seagull', 1858, which is an illustrated account of a boating and camping trip in July 1858 undertaken by a group of young Friends on the rowing boat 'Seagull'. Their itinerary was as follows:
July 12th-14th 1858 - Stratford upon Avon via the river Avon, the river Severn and the Berkley Canal
July 15th-21st 1858 - The river Wye
July 21-22 1858 - By road: Hay, Builth, Llandrindod to Newtown (Powys) on Severn
July 23-27th 1858 - Down the river Severn from Newtown (Powys) via Welshpool to Shrewsbury, Ironbridge and Bewdley
The 'skipper' was Wilson Sturge and for varying amounts of time his crew was made up of John W. Shorthouse, Richard Cadbury, Joel Cadbury, Joseph W. Lloyd, Joseph A. Ellis, Wilson Lloyd, Edmund Shorthouse, Thomas Gibbins, and George J. Blakey.
Wilson Sturge was the author of 'The Log of the Seagull' and it was illustrated by Richard Cadbury, Wilson Sturge, J. W. Shorthouse, H. J. Newman and J. Price. Some of the illustrations are initialled 'RC', the remainder are anonymous. |