Diary of travels in Europe, 1875 July
- Title(s):
- Diary of travels in Europe.
- Published/Created:
- Europe, 1875 July.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (132 pages) ; 16 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsD919 .D53 1875Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10632301
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- Bound in contemporary red limp morocco; with the stationer's label of Parkins & Gotto.
Manuscript diary, in a single hand, of a tour taken in July 1875 to the Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, and Austria. The diarist is unidentified; on the first page he notes that he travels with a party of four ("Clare, J., H., & self"), and with a Mr. and Mrs. Bonner. The travels do not start well, as “a large party of Americans (33) under the escort of one of Cook's agents filled nearly all the 1st class carriages” on their train to Harwich. It is their first trip abroad, at least to Holland, which looked “just as one knew it would--long stretches of dead sandy flats, the sand looking almost as white as chalk, windmills everywhere.” In Rotterdam they visit the museum and view paintings by Rembrandt, before traveling on to Utrecht, and through Europe. They go to concerts, numerous museums, and the opera to see Fidelio. - Subject Terms:
- Austria -- Description and travel.Germany -- Description and travel.Netherlands -- Description and travel.
- Form/Genre:
- Diaries.
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