1866 Handwritten Europe Travel Diary, Fantastic Volume

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1866 Handwritten Europe Travel Diary, Fantastic Volume:
$342.89

1866Trip Europe, HandwrittenTravel Diary, withPhotos - Boston Woman

Amazingmanuscript diary of Emma Whitehead fromBoston. She titles it,Notes of Foreign Travel, 1866-67, 158pp.Illustrated with (45) photos and (15) engravings (one tinted color). Penned in legible ink.

It was maintained in a blankvolume w/ leather spine, gilt letters reading Scrap Book, sold by J. L. Fairbanks, stationer and acct book mfgr, Boston. 8\" x 10.25\"

Content:Veryreadable with some riveting entries not only on theusual sites, but observations aboutthe common people and customs as well.

It begins with her departure from London. She visits southern England, Paris, the Riviera, northern Italy, the Alps, Paris, Loire Valley, Bordeau, Pau, Bayonne, Biarritz, Angouleme, Orleans, Frankfort, Nuremburg, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Waterloo, back to England, sails from Liverpool, arrives in Boston July 1867.

Munich - \"The present King of Bavaria is only 21 or 22 years of age and is averse to the duties of his Office. It is reported...he went away...taking only one attendant and was in the mountains enjoying himself...Sleeping and Eating in Shepherd\'s Cots...\"

Austrian Tyrol - \"The real life of the Cow-heard of the Alps differs widely from the beau Idea of poetry and romance. From 6 to 8 months he is banished from the haunts of men, above the Clouds, occupying a wretched chalet...\" more

Women - [Boulogne] \"It seemed very strange to see the Women, instead of Men, carry up the Luggage...Here you see the degradation of women...; [Germany] she sees women \"...working on Building, uploading Bricks, then Carrying great loads of them to the Top...the most slavish hard work.\"

Alpine - Full page+ on Englishman who climbed the Matterhorn in 1865, most of group \"dashed to pieces\" on descent.

Florence - full page Villa Torrigiana

Paris - opening of Parliament, \"dashing Equipages\", good view of Emperor and Empress

Plus, Pau \"a Stupid place\", bullfighting \"perfectly disgusting\", storm at Biarritz, stilt-walking shepherd, Carnival of the Ox, fire in lodging house, Jews of Prague.Much more.

Condition: VG+ clean, binding secure. Some rippling of pages where photos affixed.