Holograph narrative of a two week tour of Belgium. The author and his companion took the steam-ship "Menoir" to Ostend on June 26th; traveled by train to Bruges and Ghent, where they viewed paintings, principal buildings, and the Convent of the Beguine Nuns; spent several days in Brussels; and visited Waterloo, noting that the Hougemont was "precisely in the same state as it was the day after the Battle." They continued on to Mecklin and sailed for England after spending their final days sightseeing in Antwerp. and The journal is illustrated with many laid-down engravings and several watercolors. The last eight leaves contain pasted-in bills, hotel passes, train tickets, theater programs, and other ephemera. (Two of the bills are made out to "John Dyott" and "John DeWitt.").
Description:
Binding: contemporary half morocco, gilt decoration on spine, with marbled end papers., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Multiple blanks not digitized., and Spine title: "Tour in Belgium 1839".
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel, Tourists, Travelers' writings, English, and Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Description and travel
Drawings of various complexity, presumably by a boy and for him by an adult, which depict figures and activities of fictitious nations on sheets of a ledger volume, circa 1899-1900. Drawings consist primarily of military figures, inhabitants, indigenous animals, and naval ships of Browlia, Frowlia, and Souv, in addition to a map of the nation of Browlia, a Browlian postage stamp, and flags for the nations Browlia and Ounyhonte. Several of the drawings are on sheets, which are then mounted on leaves of the ledger volume. Other items include two photographic prints that depict the boy, poetry and songs in English and Browlian, a clipping of lines from a Welsh religious publication that may have inspired the Browlian language, and eighteen collages created from magazine halftone images. The creator provides English and Browlian commentary about drawings and items with pencil inscriptions as well as typescript created with a dollar typewriter.
Description:
Although the entire scrapbook has been renumbered in pencil by the creator, several otherwise blank pages have not been digitized. and Volume has been partially disbound.
Subject (Topic):
Imaginary creatures, Imaginary languages, Imaginary places, Imaginary societies, and Imaginary wars and battles