Mallory’s first glimpse of Everest. Dickens describes Niagra Falls. William Pitt the Younger ordering a meat pie. John Constable writing home from London. Grumpy voters. Cheese on toast gone wrong. Blue Moons. Nelsonic Speeches and Morris Dancing. Science. Serious philosophical stuff or silly things that I find while researching.

This is a page of oddments and allsorts, like an old commonplace book for things that don’t fit elsewhere but I don’t want to forget about.

A list of miscellanies

1. Robert Peel’s Bet [1823]
2. William Pitt the Younger’s Final Words [1806]
3. Old News on St Valentine’s Day [1805]
4. A Description of a Seal [1816]
5. Hearty Appitites [c.1790s]
6. The Last Chime of the Clockwork Man [1802]
7. The Wary Voter of Andover [c.1740s]
8. Early Exposure: the Mirror with a Memory [1839]
9. Mallory’s First Glimpse of Everest [1921]
10. Nelson at Copenhagan [1801]
11. The Beautiful Women of England [1790]
12. A Sketch of the British Parliament [1782]
13. Parson Woodforde Goes Fishing [1781]
14. A short piece on the swallow [1877]
15. Catherine of Aragon’s last letter to Henry VIII [1535]
16. A nasty case of the hydrophobia [1794]
17. Johnson and Boswell sail to Rasaay [1773]
18. Curious statistical accounts [1814]
19. A Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder [1806]
20. Escape from Edgeworthstown [1798]
21. Photographic problems on Whitby Pier [1902]
22. Dream analysis [1909]
23. Dew – Aristotle’s explanation [c.350bc]
24. Samuel Coleridge’s cheese on toast catastrophe [c.1780]
25. Christopher Colombus writes home [1493]
26. Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol [1774]
27. John Constable writes to John Dunthorne [1802]
28. Once in a blue moon [1950]
29. Aunt Vera’s New Year wishes [1915]
30. Abbots Bromley Horn Dance [1834]
31. Capell Lofft, Georgian Literary Agent [1800]
32. A list of objections: Charles Darwin and the Beagle [1831]
33. The First Description of a Pineapple [1647]
34. The death of anticiplation [1743]
35. The Sensations of a Drowning Man, [1847]
36. A Roast Dinner Cooked on the Ice over the River Exe [1855]
37. To a Drop of Dew [1833]
38. An Essay on Blockheads [1802]
39. Damn’d Eyes [1766]
40. A Sea Monster discovered in Porthleven, Cornwall [1786]
41. A suggestion for a female administration [1766]