Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836 (1835)
by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Title Page, Preface and Contents
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(L. E. L.)
in
Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap
Book, 1836

compiled by
Peter J. Bolton



PREFACE.


A Preface in a Work so favourably treated as the present, is but a pleasant opportunity of returning thanks. We still go on: for how many beautiful scenes yet remain in the numerous countries we have laid under contribution—and what scope do they not still afford to the painter and poet?

I have ventured this year to make a slight alteration in my former plan. Several fugitive pieces are introduced, in the hope of giving greater variety. Some Engravings, portraits especially, though attractive as works of art, are unmanageable as subjects for poems. May I hope that my own choice will meet the same approval from the Public, which has been often kindly bestowed on my previous endeavours to deserve such favour.


L. E. L.
August, 1835 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS


The Hindoo Mother
4
Immolation of a Hindoo Widow
7
The Lily of the Valley
9
Scenes in London.—Piccadilly
12
Warkworth Hermitage
14
The Astrologer
16
The Snowdrop
18
The Hindoo Girl's Song
19
Horse-Shoe Falls, Niagara
20
The Indian Girl
21
The Rush-Bearing at Ambleside
25
The Young Destructive
27
Fishing Boats in the Monsoon
29
The Montmorency Waterfall and Cone
32
Scenes in London.—The Savoyard in Grosvenor Square
34
Beverley Minster
36
Dunold Mill-Hole
38
The Fortress of Bowrie, in Rajpootana
40
The Widow's Mite
42
Ruins about the Taj Mahal
44
Scenes in London:—The City Church-Yard
46
Eskdale, Cumberland
48
Sir Thomas Hardy
50
Borro Boedoor
52
The Phantom
54
Fountain’s Abbey
56
Dr. Adam Clarke and the Two Priests of Budha
58
The Coleraine Salmon Leap
62
Christmas in the Olden Time, 1650 (Wycoller Hall)
64
The Queen’s Room, Sizergh Hall, Westmorland
67
Hindoo Temples and Palace at Madura
69
The Aisle of Tombs
72
The Palace Called Beautiful
75
Valley of Linmouth, North Devon
77
Pulo Penang
79
Scenes in London: Oxford Street
81