Notebook of Captain John Turnbull Laurenson and copy of photograph of Captain John Turnbull Laurenson

Marbled-effect covered notebook. Contents include a loose poem dated 28 Dec 1871 and Laurenson family details (dates of births and deaths) stuck into front . There are further poems and transcribed notes from a lecture on a year in the Arctic Circle, along with an extract from a journal kept on board the barque COTHERSTONE, 22-27 Nov 1876. Appended into the back page are newspaper cuttings of various recipes including peas pudding and gum. Also a couple of air mail stickers from a later date. Photograph copy (undated) is a studio portrait.