| Administrative History | Richard Walter Forbes (1762-1835) of Rolvenden, Kent, was the grandson of Thomas Forbes (1700-1771), 4th laird of Waterton (Aberdeenshire) who sold the Waterton lands to the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen in 1770. R. W. Forbes' daughter, Frances, married Michael Tweedie. For further information on the Forbes family see A. & H. Tayler, eds., House of Forbes (Third Spalding Club, 1937). |
| Description | Journal of a three weeks' tour in France in September 1815. The tour of France was one of many undertaken in comparative safety following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in July 1815.
Written on the reverse of the manuscript is the title: 'Journal of a three weeks tour in France in which the opinions of the late Revd Mr. Eustace and Mr. M. Birkbeck are reviewed - and some considerations submitted to English families intending to reside in France - by a farmer of the Weald of Kent.' The works referred to in MS 2219 are presumably: 'A letter from Paris to G. Petre' (1814) by John Chetwode Eustace (1762?-1815), and 'Notes on a journey through Paris and Lyons to the Pyrrennees ... 1814', by Morris Birkbeck. The volume contains 28 folios, partly paginated as 1 - 35, with many corrections and words rephrased. The contents are as follows:
Preface. (folios 1 - 2)
4 October 1815
Journal, itinerary includes Rye (Sussex), Boulogne, Paris, Rouen, Dieppe, St. Omer and Calais. (folios 2 verso - 19)
4 - 27 September 1815
List of staging-posts showing route. (folios 20 - 21)
not dated
Pages cut out: only fragments remain. (folios 22 - 27)
not dated
Inscribed with title and pencilled note in later hand: 'This was Richard Walter Forbes of Rawlinson'. (folio 28 verso)
September 1815 |
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