A Schoolboy's Visit to London

Handwritten notes on 'A Schoolboy's Visit to London' [London: E. Wallis, 182-?] which describes the visit of Harry (a boy) to London where he is shown round by Tom (an adult). The tour, which starts from Grosvenor Square, includes the Tower, Custom House, Monument, St. Paul's, the British Museum and Vauxhall Gardens, finishing at the Cosmorama in Regent Street, is entirely related in doggerel verse: 'Now to the Cosmorama come, Behold the view of mighty Rome, Egypt, or Paris, or Madras - To see them all, peep through the glass; The flowers too bloom, so rare and gay - Now home; enough we've seen to-day.'

Part of the Ralph Hyde Collection