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National Library of Scotland, MS 42551 . Not previously published.
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I return Mr Nuttalls MSS
Tho the Travels are not all that might be wished they xxx <contain> a great deal of curious
information. For my own taste I could wish the writer had been more of a journalist, & given to his narrative that connected
interest which the recital of personal adventure can hardly fail to excite. But physical science is his favourite pursuit, & upon
these things, I who know nothing, take it for granted that every man who writes at all writes with a competent knowledge of his
subject. A very considerable part of the book is thus occupied filled.
Thank you for Gibbon,third volume of the Somers Tracts.
The Jews & the Catholics will both form prominent parts of the article upon Gregoires book,at
some degree abate.
This young soldier is met with in happy time;historical prints as they are called, & views of
battles, they must of necessity be either so false, or so imperfect, that the book is better without them. Plans
of the great battles will doubtless be required, – these may all be obtained from the War office, (indeed I have most of them) &
may perhaps like those of the War office, be as well & more economically given in stone-etching than in any other way. For views I
should like a good head-piece to every chapter, better than a few large prints; & tail-pieces of costume (which might perhaps be
more conveniently executed in wood) to be placed where the end of a chapter happened to afford room for them.
With the regard to portraits, it will I suppose be indispensable that Lord Wellington should stand as a frontispiece to the book which records his
progress to a Dukedom well-deserved. But after giving him a whole copper to himself, may we not, xxx xxx xx xxx xx, arrange
several heads upon one plate, connected in some tasteful way, as in Bowyer’s Hume?xx the Empecinado.
The views of most importance are Zaragoza, Gerona, xxxxx, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Coruña, Valencia, Cadiz,
Salamanca, Victoria, St Sebastians, Pamplona, Burgos, Busaco, Talavera, Porto; – if you determine upon having
vignettes I would then add to the list, The Buen Retiro at Madrid, Aranjuez, the Escorial, Belem (from whence the Prince of Brazil
embarked) Hostatrich, Barcelona, Astorza, Bayonne, Santarem, the Bridges of Amarante, S Payo, & Almarez, Tarragona, Alcobaça; &
some of the passes which it is not possible that I can point out but which may easily be selected from the soldier-article portfolios.
The Puente del Corcul would give a good idea of the country thro which Sir J Moore fled: Neale
I shall wait for Egypt the first Receuil which L. Goldsmith published of Buonapartes Manifestos Proclamations &c;
& the last volume for Spain you know I have the intermediate four.