Josiah Wedgwood's Great-Grandson's Travel Diaries - The Rev....

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Josiah Wedgwood's Great-Grandson's Travel Diaries - The Rev. Rowland Henry Wedgwood (1847-1921), two Letts's No. 26 ink manuscript diaries, comprising 1888 a journal for his trip to Italy & 1902 for his trip to Egypt and the Levant, via Europe, both testify to the Reverend Wedgwood's piety, as he frequently makes references to the numbers of masses he heard each day (slightly more infrequent in the Levant, but he seems to have relished the Eastern rites); the brief and precise entries of the travel log reveal nothing out of the ordinary, either in experience or sentiment, as one would expect from a Englishman of his age and class, though there are timeless observations, e.g. Saturday, 15th February, 1902 '[...] Lots of Arabs - pestered us to buy things' (a perennial threat in tourism, as was having to share cabins with unpleasant companions, which he notes); though the diaries illustrate his travels, the journals themselves are not exhaustive, being prefixed and/or suffixed by vignettes of his life in England; etc., original publisher's cloth bindings, marbled edges, advertising prelims, 8vo, [2]