So here is what I just saw:
The only extant manuscript of Beowulf
A manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A manuscript of The Canterbury Tales (1410)
A King James Bible, 1611
A first edition of Robinson Crusoe
The only manuscript draft (excerpt) of one of Jane Austen's novels
A handwritten manuscript of Finnegan's Wake
And so much more that I can't even remember it all.
It's all in a fantastic exhibition at the British Library.
Not a bad way to end the trip. Tomorrow morning, I'm homeward bound!
5 comments:
OMG! Looks like I will have to go back to the UK!
Safe travel.
I love you!
wow! I may have to take a trip there!
Sounds like a GREAT end to the trip! Safe travels (though I am guessing you are back now)!
Great end to the trip! Hope it all went well. I love the "treasures" exhibit, and took my mum there in November. It's mind blowing, isn't it?
Oh, the journal entry from the doomed Antarctic exhibition: "I am going out and may be some time." Recorded, right there (under the glass)!
So much coolness!!! I'm excited and living vicariously through your manuscriptic magnificence...
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