Travels through found sketchbooks #1

Hello and welcome to Long Mizzle, Open this small unassuming shoulder bag, and you'll find a passion for travel, together with a love of gardens and landscape, through the eyes of an unknown artist. Mam found this lot in a house sale clearance stall a few years ago at Rosudgeon Carboot Sale, and kindly gifted them to me... [Garden at Dragarstigen (Sweden), 31st July, 1982] The bag contains: four small sketchbooks filled with studies in ink, chalk and watercolour, one tube of paintbrushes, one small empty medicine bottle, one 'Amalifi' tourist penknife and one 'rapidliner' pencil, purchased in Germany. [Stadpark (City Park) Vienna. 1989] A label inside the bag reads - Mr L J...