New Publication:Volume 2 of the Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke and Jeremiah Milles

Volume 2 of the Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke and Jeremiah Milles will soon be available  from 2 June 2012 at Christ Church Cathedral Shop, the Book Centre and Eason's Dungarvan.  It  can also be bought direct from the publisher at www.pocockepress.com

This volume concentrates on the complete letters from Pococke to his mother, giving colourful descriptions of the travellers' visits to royal and imperial courts of Europe. It also includes selected letters from Pococke and Milles to Bishop Thomas Milles, their uncle. 

Dr. Rachel Finnegan is a lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology. She has written on the connoisseurship of the 2nd Earl of Bessborough, the Divan Club & Bishop Pococke's "improvements" to St. Canice's Cathedral Kilkenny.  Her new edition of Richard Twiss's A Tour of Ireland in 1775 was published in 2008 by University College Dublin Press and Volume 1 of the present series was published in 2011. 

New Publication : The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles

The book is edited by Dr. Rachel Finnegan, Programme Leader for the MA in Arts & Heritage Management,Waterford Institute of Technology.

It is Volume 1 of the Grand Tour correspondence of Dr. Richard Pococke (then Precentor of Waterford Cathedral and shortly afterwards appointed Vicar General of Waterford & Lismore) and his cousin Jeremiah Milles (shortly to become Treasurer of Lismore Cathedral). Together they toured France & Italy in 1733-34 and wrote a large collection of letters to their relatives, including their mutual uncle, Thomas Milles, Bishop of Waterford & Lismore.

For more information, or to order on-line, please visit www.pocockepress.com