Catalogue description journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A....
This record is held by Oxford University: Griffith Institute
Reference: | J. Lane MSS 1-5 |
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Description: | journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the "Simla", thence up the Nile to Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. |
Date: | 1873-1876 |
Held by: | Oxford University: Griffith Institute, not available at The National Archives |
Other reference: | See Annual Return 2019 |
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