William Black essays, undated

The papers consist of three handwritten short essays, eacah pasted into a bound in full tan calf folio volume: “The Borderland of Dreams” is “a scientific dissertation on the faculty of sleep and the art of going to sleep”; “Metropolitan Conveyances” discusses and criticizes “the Underground Railway and other Metropolitan conveyances” comparing them with “similar institutions in other cities of Europe”; “My Lady Jemimah…” is the story of the courtship and marriage of Lady Jemimah, daughter of Lord Sandwich, and Philip Carteret, son of Sir George Carteret, “reconstructed from sundry notes in the Diary of Samuel Pepys who was apparently largely instrumental in arranging the marriage.”