Edinburgh.
_Thomas Wright of Durham_ (Vol. viii., p. 218.).--It may interest MR.
DE MORGAN to be referred to a manuscript in the British Museum, marked
"Additional, 15,627.," which he will find to be one of the original
"note-books," if not the very note-book itself, from which the notice of
the life of Thomas Wright was compiled for the _Gentleman's Magazine_.
It is, in fact, an autobiography by Wright, written in the form of a
journal; and although containing entries as late as the year 1780, it
ceases to be continuous with the year 1748, and has no entries at all
between that year and 1756. This break in the journal sufficiently
accounts for the deficiency in the biography given by the _Gentleman's
Magazine_.
I may mention, also, that the Additional MS. 15,628. contains Wright's
unpublished collections relative to British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities
in England.