Our art class was cancelled today, our professor was pretty sick. So Andrea, Kelsey, Stephanie, Molly, and I went up to the British Library to check out the Lindisfarne Gospels for class. The library had a lot more stuff than I was ever expecting!
Original Beatles lyrics
DaVinci notebooks
Freud's Dream manuscript
a letter from Darwin
1484 copy of Aesop's fables
copy of the Magna Carta
1st edition of Marlowe's Faustus
Garrek's copy of Romeo and Juliet
1562 (before Shakespeare's) copy of Romeo and Juliet by Arthur Brook
lots of Shakespeare's poetry
Milton's research notebook
one of Jane Austen's notebooks and a manuscript for Persuasion
an original Alice in Wonderland
a manuscript of Tess of D'urbervilles (which I'd started reading a few days before!)
stuff by Wilde, Conrad, and Plath
Virginia Woolf's notebook for Mrs. Dolloway
...AND...
Charlotte Bronte's hand-written manuscript of Jane Eyre, open to the conclusion!!!
There were also A LOT of books and illuminated manuscripts from various world religions, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's tuning fork, Mozart's marriage contract, and MORE. It was really not what I was expecting!!
Then we went back to King's Cross station to see Harry Potter's 9 3/4 platform. We got help from the very kind station manager who, as we were looking around for it, came up to us knowing exactly what we wanted and showed us where to go :D
We went home, had lunch, and then Steph, Kelsey and I went to the Old Brompton Cemetary. It is where Emmeline Pankhurst is buried (leader of suffragist movement) and where Beatrix Potter got a lot of her characters' names, including Peter Rabbit! It was pretty cool and once fall comes, a perfect place for Halloween!! We sat down and did some reading before heading home.
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