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Record Office:
The Record Office, on Chancery Lane, has some fabulous documents on view, such as Domesday Book, written on vellum in a beautiful clear script in medieval Latin-turning-French; also letters signed by Henry VIII, Will"1 Shaks (for Shakespeare), Napoleon, Captain Cook, G. Washington (to George III), Wellington (after Waterloo), Dr. Livingstone (after Stanley's coming) and dozens more of equal interest. If you're a browser, don't miss the Record Office.
Sam Johnsons House, 17 Gough Square, where the great lexicographer racked his brain to define words for us.
Dickens' House, 48 Doughty St., where the novelist wrote Oliver Twist and 'Nicholas Nickleby. Some of his amazing letters to his sister may be read "under glass."He was commander of the English forces in the Crimean War, where he suffered much from the early failures of the campaign and from the hostile criticism of the inefficient commissariat arrangements. RAGMAN ROLLS, documents containing a record of the acts of allegiance extorted by Edward I of England from the nobility and gentry of Scotland in 1291-1292 and 1296. The document was delivered back to the Scots along with other records and muniments in 1329 in terms of the Peace of Northampton, when the independence of Scotland was formally acknowledged. It is now deposited in the British Record Office.
Vienna has some seventy museums, so you may trudge to taste. I even saw, and enjoyed, a postage stamp museum, opposite the Austrian Travel Bureau on Friedrichstrasse, but this may have been of a temporary nature. In the Archives Office, I have done the most interesting browsing I have ever enjoyed, except, possibly, in London's Record Office, If you want to see the original Golden Bull, the original manuscript of the agmatic Sanction and a collection of Napoleon's letters to Marie Louise d hers, about Napoleon, to "Lieber Papa," this is your chance.
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