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Journal of a visit to London and tour on the continent in summer 1838 : in company with Messrs Thomas Anderson, John Clezy and Robert Richardson, Selkirk, and Revd James Veitch, Galashiels
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Journal of a visit to London and tour on the continent in summer 1838 : in company with Messrs Thomas Anderson, John Clezy and Robert Richardson, Selkirk, and Revd James Veitch, Galashiels, 1838 / by Andrew Lang.
Physical Description
1 v. (i-ii, III-XXX, 318 p.) ; 21 cm
Notes
Spine title: Journal of tour | 1838
Binding: Contemporary full green morocco with gold tooling by Alexander Banks Jr., 5 North Bridge, Edinburgh.
Associated material: Diary of Dr. Thomas Anderson, Wichita State University Special Collections & University Archives, Wichita, Kansas.
In English.
Provenance
Gift of William Todd (Yale 1894), 1936.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland, on December 22, 1783, and died on November 10, 1842. Lang was sheriff clerk of Selkirkshire from 1805 until his death, and was the grandfather of Scottish author and folklorist Andrew Lang (1844-1912).
Thomas Anderson (1787-1855) was a surgeon in Selkirk, Scotland; John Clezy (1791-1864) was rector of Selkirk Grammar School; Robert Richardson (born circa 1800) was a merchant in Selkirk; James Veitch (1808-1879) was a parish minister in Galashiels, Scotland, and later pastor of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (1843-1878).
Summary
Autograph manuscript diary by Andrew Lang of a European journey he took in the summer of 1838 with four friends from Scotland. The group left Selkirk for London on July 26, and after three days of preparation began a continental tour stopping at Antwerp, Brussels, Liège, Cologne, Coblentz, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Baden, Schaffhausen, Zurich, Lucerne, Interlaken, Fribourg, Lausanne, Geneva, Dijon, and Paris, and smaller villages along the route. The men returned to London on September 12, and Lang spent ten days sight-seeing in the city and its environs; he arrived back in Selkirk on September 23. Lang wrote his diary while the trip was in process, and illustrated it by inserting engravings of local landscapes and city views along with trade cards from the hotels frequented. He also included a title page, preface, list of plates, and manuscript maps and itineraries of both the group's intended and accomplished routes. At the end of the diary Lang added an appendix containing his specific observations on eleven numbered topics: horses, sheep, cattle, swine, villas, travellers on horseback, houses, crosses and chapels, women, threshing corn, and language and money, followed by a note on the value of consulting handbooks before traveling. Bound in at the back of the volume is an engraved Lettre d'indication pour les billets de change circulaires listing the European exchange agents of Hammersleys & Co., and Lang's passport issued by the Prussian consul in London, afterward countersigned by the French and Belgian consuls in the city.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2014
References
Andrew Lang, Journal of a Visit to London and Tour on the Continent in Summer 1838. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Andrew Lang, Journal of a Visit to London and Tour on the Continent in Summer 1838. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Binders' tickets (Binding) - Alexander Banks Jr.
Diaries - Scotland - 19th century.
Engravings (prints) - 19th century.
Itineraries - 19th century.
Manuscript maps - 19th century.
Passports - 19th century.
Trade cards - 19th century.
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