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19TH CENTURY GRAND TOUR DIARY
"Diary at Rome &c. From Nov. 1834 to Oct. 1835" -- A 253pp. manuscript diary, of approximately 40 lines per page in an anonymous but neat and legible hand, using 'Arnold's best Japan Ink', having 'procured this diary book with the most assiduous resolutions of daily reporting our proceedings'; the female narrator has an lucid, but also exuberant style ('Dinner at 5 - Eat well - Drank well - felt well!'), as she discusses the architecture ('The melancholy gloom came over me, & the ground combinations convinced me of of the Genius of Michelangelo'), the arrogance and pomposity of other tourists ('But what should such insensible gazers do in Rome!') and the beauty of Rome itself and the surrounding countryside, culminating eleven months later in their departure from Paris for London by steamship ('I went down to my berth, & crawled in. Slept away - little conscious that the water was soaking my bed') (light damp-staining to lower margin),
"Diary at Rome &c. From Nov. 1834 to Oct. 1835" -- A 253pp. manuscript diary, of approximately 40 lines per page in an anonymous but neat and legible hand, using 'Arnold's best Japan Ink', having 'procured this diary book with the most assiduous resolutions of daily reporting our proceedings'; the female narrator has an lucid, but also exuberant style ('Dinner at 5 - Eat well - Drank well - felt well!'), as she discusses the architecture ('The melancholy gloom came over me, & the ground combinations convinced me of of the Genius of Michelangelo'), the arrogance and pomposity of other tourists ('But what should such insensible gazers do in Rome!') and the beauty of Rome itself and the surrounding countryside, culminating eleven months later in their departure from Paris for London by steamship ('I went down to my berth, & crawled in. Slept away - little conscious that the water was soaking my bed') (light damp-staining to lower margin),