A Young American Woman's Manuscript Travel Diary of European Tour 1901

Description: Hardcover. 12mo. Aug. 14-Aug. 31, 1901. Kept in 1 vol. (4.5” x 7”) with worn covers, one detached (but present). First gathering disbound. 156 pp. text in pencil with 23 pp. additional pages of characterizations of fellow travelers. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are heavily scuffed and worn with pieces missing). Boards are detached at the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. An unidentified diarist commences this record off the coast of Wales on Aug. 14, 1901. Her tour covered a number of locations including the Lake Country, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Abbotsford, Durham, Cathedral, York, Antwerp, the Black Forest, Zurich, Lucerne, and concluded in Paris, where the writing stops. While the diarist makes comments on many familiar tourist destinations, this volume is made special by the writer’s eye for the off-beat and amusing – like her efforts in Glasgow to find the family plaid. In one Scottish shop “they assured me there was no McCormick. Not willing to admit that my family had no clan, I persisted until I found a store that dealt in plaids. The clerk got down his clan book and assured me the McCormicks were a part of the great Buchanan clan.” At Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford and Melrose Abbey, the diarist was much impressed with Jonathan Hood, the aged guide who showed visitors about. "An old man, a guide for years...Scitt he loved, Melrose he adored. Every bit of fine carving, every point of advantage for seeing were brought out that you might see the very best of his old friend." In Antwerp, the diarist toured a prison “in which people were literally dumped [into a pool]. When the tide rose, they were drowned, then the gates were opened and their bodies permitted to float out to the sea.” It was happier touring a lace factory where the women employees “prick the paper pattern with pins and work around them. A piece about 4 inches long and 3 square took one of their best women a week to make.” Due to language difficulties (particularly with German) travel provided frustrating and amusing experiences. The diarist comments on one set of fellow passengers. “They were on the surface and below ground marked with large letters ‘newly rich,’” the writer observed, “but their display of wealth and loud talk of ‘what we have seen’ impressed no members of our party…. Tales in bad English. I grinned and took it in. The man looked like a German Jew.” An incident on a train with French tourists led to the diarist’s party (evidently American) being called “Yankee pigs.” The diary passed it off since "we are here to laugh at everything and everybody." A Young American Woman's Manuscript Travel Diary of European Tour 1901 Description Up For Sale Today is Manuscript Travel Diary of European Tour 1901 by A Young American Woman Hardcover. 12mo. Aug. 14-Aug. 31, 1901. Kept in 1 vol. (4.5” x 7”) with worn covers, one detached (but present). First gathering disbound. 156 pp. text in pencil with 23 pp. additional pages of characterizations of fellow travelers. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are heavily scuffed and worn with pieces missing). Boards are detached at the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. An unidentified diarist commences this record off the coast of Wales on Aug. 14, 1901. Her tour covered a number of locations including the Lake Country, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Abbotsford, Durham, Cathedral, York, Antwerp, the Black Forest, Zurich, Lucerne, and concluded in Paris, where the writing stops. While the diarist makes comments on many familiar tourist destinations, this volume is made special by the writer’s eye for the off-beat and amusing – like her efforts in Glasgow to find the family plaid. In one Scottish shop “they assured me there was no McCormick. Not willing to admit that my family had no clan, I persisted until I found a store that dealt in plaids. The clerk got down his clan book and assured me the McCormicks were a part of the great Buchanan clan.” At Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford and Melrose Abbey, the diarist was much impressed with Jonathan Hood, the aged guide who showed visitors about. "An old man, a guide for years...Scitt he loved, Melrose he adored. Every bit of fine carving, every point of advantage for seeing were brought out that you might see the very best of his old friend." In Antwerp, the diarist toured a prison “in which people were literally dumped [into a pool]. When the tide rose, they were drowned, then the gates were opened and their bodies permitted to float out to the sea.” It was happier touring a lace factory where the women employees “prick the paper pattern with pins and work around them. A piece about 4 inches long and 3 square took one of their best women a week to make.” Due to language difficulties (particularly with German) travel provided frustrating and amusing experiences. The diarist comments on one set of fellow passengers. “They were on the surface and below ground marked with large letters ‘newly rich,’” the writer observed, “but their display of wealth and loud talk of ‘what we have seen’ impressed no members of our party…. Tales in bad English. I grinned and took it in. The man looked like a German Jew.” An incident on a train with French tourists led to the diarist’s party (evidently American) being called “Yankee pigs.” The diary passed it off since "we are here to laugh at everything and everybody." OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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