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LMGLM:1992.191

Summary: commonplace book, c450 pp, handwritten entries on death, life, ennui etc and with some family information, latterly belonging to James Gray, harness maker, Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, compiled mostly 1824 to 1827Summary: Includes more personal passages, in Latin, in which author, perhaps a schoolmaster, laments his life in London, his friendlessness, his too-frequent...

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Summary: commonplace book, c450 pp, handwritten entries on death, life, ennui etc and with some family information, latterly belonging to James Gray, harness maker, Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, compiled mostly 1824 to 1827

Summary: Includes more personal passages, in Latin, in which author, perhaps a schoolmaster, laments his life in London, his friendlessness, his too-frequent drunkeness, and the hatefulness of his employer.

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