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Lieut. Booth's Sketchbook Rediscovered: more views of Swansea in 1783 by Bernard Morris In the fortieth volume of Gower (1989) is an article which describes a series of previously unpublished views of Swansea which had been made in 1783 by a young Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineer Officers. Lieutenant William Booth spent at least four months in Swansea through the summer of that year on well-earned leave following three years service in Gibraltar, which included the great siege of 1782. That article explained that the whereabouts of the original sketchbook were not known in 1989, but that it had been offered to the Swansea Museum in 1927 by the Reverend H.W Lane, then living in Australia, and had been sent 'on approval' to W H. Jones, the Museum's Director. It was the correspondence between him and the Rev. Lane, together with a few three-inch square black and white slides of some of the Swansea views in Lieut. Booth's sketchbook, which formed the basis of the article. W H. Jones had offered four pounds for the originals but the offer was not accepted and, as far as Swansea was concerned, this record of the town and its surroundings in the late eighteenth century disappeared from sight. This was unfortunate because it was clear from the photographs of his work that Booth was a careful and reliable topographical draughtsman, a useful skill in his profession, and there were a number of views listed in the correspondence of which we had no photographs. Booth's work was also pleasing when considered as art and the Rev. Lane had mentioned in correspondence that "the colours are wonderfully preserved". I had concluded the 1989 account of what had then been found with the comment that "it may not be unreasonable to hope that one day the originals may reappear". It can now be said, with much satisfaction, that the original sketchbook has been traced during 1994. As anticipated, it has many views previously known only from the written lists, plus a number of others not even listed, and the colours are indeed "wonderfully preserved". Booth's skills as an artist and as a recorder have combined to create a delightful series of watercolour sketches of considerable local historical interest. When the Rev. Lane had offered the local sketches to the Swansea Museum he had mentioned that others in the book showed scenes at Clifton (Bristol) and the Isle of Thanet and that he had offered these separately to private residents in Bristol and Margate. Fortunately the book was not broken up and it is now intact and in excellent condition, in the expert care of the