Tag Archives: Sir Joseph Banks

Holland through the eyes of an Englishman: Joseph Banks in The Hague

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

And here is Ilse Daalhof’s second blogpost: Among  the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, which I also mentioned in my last blog post, I found a series called “Journal of a Tour in Holland”. The series consists of 81 pages on … Continue reading →

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A final Adieu

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Ilse Daalhof wrote the following blogpost, on the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, which she has been studying: In the week we were looking at opening and closing statements of letters, I stumbled onto what appeared to me a unique closing … Continue reading →

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Joseph Banks in a Dutch Track Shoot

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

About a year ago, I gave a workshop to our second-year students here at Leiden on eighteenth-century letter writing. To practice their newly acquired skills, the students had to produce a transcription of a letter by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), whose letters … Continue reading →

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Letters to Sir Joseph Banks

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

This year, in our course Philology 3 (History of the English Language), the students did a project on the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Banks is described on Wikipedia as a “naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences” … Continue reading →

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