Journal of a tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland
Overview
This collection consists of several loose pages providing fragmentary evidence of an individual's tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland in 1864.
Dates
- Creation: February-May 1864
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 folder ; Folder measures 22x37 cm.
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 1 mourning leaf containing a list of things to see in the Vatican; another smaller mourning leaf with some memoranda about Rome; 4 pages, the first dated February 11, 1864: "Left Newcastle...13 Boulogne?...14-22 Paris, 22 Lyons, 24 Marseilles, 25 Nice, 26 Mentine, 27-29 Italy"; a white leaf containing directions for a drive through Rome and additional memoranda about Rome; and lastly 4 blue sheets sewn together and difficult to read due to the thinness of the paper and the writer writing on both sides. These last pages appear to include more of the tourist's itinerary: "April 29. Went to S[] Anastascia...Dante. 30 Left Verona...currently...for Parlezza...Lake [Magglow?]...5 May Milan (?)...May 6...May 7 left Milan...May 11 Courteriay May 12 Chillen...Geneva...May 13...May 17 Went to Ferncy May 21 Again Ferncy, May 26 St Cloud...May 28 Quar d'Orsay, May 30 left Paris for Rouen, took boat at 11, May 31 Newhaven. So ends my foreign travels for the present."
Physical Location
MS P169
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Maggs Bros Rare Books, June 27, 1966.
Processing Information
Former SC temporary call number: MS (Box) 38:75.
Former temporary collection name: Collection of 19th c. letters: Miscellaneous group of mainly English letters: mostly 19th c, some 20th c, a few 18th c.
Geographic
- Title
- Guide to a Sightseer's Diary Collection
- Subtitle
- Journal of a tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, 1966. Finding aid encoded by mwh, 2020.
- Date
- 2020-11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7713310634
- Preferred citation
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Journal of a tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland, MS P169, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository