| Description | The book was originally started in Jul 1824, new bound and enlarged in in 1830. Addresses of William Watson given as Seaton Ross, Jul 1824, 6 Mar 1830, 26 Lawrence Street, York, Jan 1840 and 2 Paradise Row, Rotherhithe, London, Dec 1840.
Includes an index giving name and place of contributors. Entries include poems, paintings, drawings, anecdotes and sayings. William Watson wrote the Lord's Prayer in the compass of a silver penny, 13 Apr 1828. There is a small printed plan of the centre of Pocklington by William Watson, 1850.
Includes the autobiographical poem:-
'William Watson, Seaton Ross
About my House grows ling and moss.
I all my Life have liv'd at Seaton,
About 8 Miles full West of Weighton
East Riding, Yorkshire, here I fix
Wighteen Hundred and thirty six
On Tuesday seventeenth of May,
I'm fifty two Years old to Day
Now fourteen stones, ten Pounds I weigh,
And I do stand near six feet high.
I rent a little Farm. They call
The House I live at Dial-Hall.
I set four Dials on the same,
By which it got this new nickname.
Those Lithographic Letters I
Form'd with a crow Pen presently.' |