sentences:  While there, he had studied the language and collected a few books, including the tragedy of "Dona Ignez de Castro", which he translated and printed in 1808.On his return to England Adamson was articled to Thomas Davidson, a Newcastle solicitor and clerk of the peace for Northumberland, to whom Adamson later dedicated his "Memoirs of Camoens".In 1810 he printed a small collection of sonnets, mostly translations from minor works of Camoens.