IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279986 accession number: MS 3-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 26 January 2021 updated: Monday 17 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: In English and French Paper, 108 fols. (including endleaves), scribal ink foliation 1-73 and 1-12 applied only to leaves with text, at the centre of upper margin, underlined in red ink; 188 x 150 mm; text written on rectos only (with occasional supplements or corrections added on versos) in dark brown ink; catchwords at the foot of each recto. Watermark: the same paper is used throughout (GR with pendant and bell inscribed JUBB, probably William Jubb the Younger, papermaker at Lower Mill at Ewell in Surrey) (see Alan Crocke, ‘The Paper Mills of Surrey II’, Surrey History, 4 (1989-93), 211-30, watermark reproduced on p. 228). Binding: eighteenth century, polished tree calf with neo-classical gilt border ornament; marbled endpapers; modern spine repair, possibly re-using the original red leather spine label (A Journey to France and Italy MS); labels indicating of old Founder’s Library shelfmark, 13 E 26. Contents: fols [1]–[12], blank fols 1r–73r Account of Travels in France and Italy, July 1769 to January 1770 fols 73v and [74r] blank fols 1*r (with additions on fol. [74v])–12*r 1777. The Charge of Travelling from London to Paris in a Post-Chaise and Four Horses for a Gentleman with his Valet de Chambre & Courier; as also his Expences during his stay at Paris for three Months with occasional Remarks … ‘till they Return to their own Country. Followed by 12 blank leaves. Hand: Copied by a single accomplished hand, probably the author, the Hon. William Fitzwilliam (1712–97) (paternal uncle of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam) in brown ink, using red ink and underlining to pick out place names and other notable elements (first text only). title: A Journey to France and Italy NOTES ----- type: history note value: Compiled by the Hon. William Fitzwilliam (1712–97), probably in 1777 (date of second text) (later pencil inscription on front endleaf: The Honble Wm Fitzwilliam Brewer Street Golden Square London. Died the 9 of March 1797 Aged 85 Years; given to Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam (inventory of his books taken at his death in 1816, FM, Museum Archive, p. 102: 'Journal of a Tour in France. M.S. 4o’); LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279986 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1777 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1777 CREATORS -------- maker: Fitzwilliam, William