I’ve been sorting through books we inherited from my parents, some real beauties there, many picked up at auctions in Truro many years ago. I was charmed to find some personal notes in the margins and cuttings from the Manchester Guardian of 1887.
Published 1870
Here’s the opening of one essay, The Guillemot, containing the wonderful word, ‘nidification’ which I take to mean the nesting habits of the birds. 
Page 62
Rather gruesome cat’s head on his desk!
Just been to see the film, Downton Abbey, The Grand Finale , thoroughly feel good!
