A collection of 17 notebooks bound in two groups and written by Richard Polwhele between the ages of 12 and 17 while attending Truro School.
LWL Mss Vol. 276
Acquired August 2022
File 763 820 R888+
Acquired August 2022
File 523 Sh534 834+
Acquired February 2022
763 P632 779
Acquired October 2021
Refers to an incident in Muros Bay, June 4, 1805, in which the privateer L’Esperance was captured by the British through the exertions of Lt. Yeo of the Loire.
File 763 805 L834
Acquired October 2021
763 819 R332
Acquired November 2020
646 820 C928
Acquired July 2020
With illustrations (some in color), aquatints, engravings and wood engraving of a geological map, a tea plant, genealogy table (folded) and many estates, manors, castles and churches in England.
61 L862
Acquired May 2019
761 814 Ir3
Acquired June 2018
The manuscript poem is accompanied by a note written in the same hand, and in the third person, from Whitehead to Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon, the Duchess of Queensberry’s brother-in-law.
LWL Mss File 144
Acquired November 2018