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1. Add MS 89256

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Title:
Travel Journals of Mary Cecilia Blencowe
Scope & Content:
Two journals of travels made by Mary Cecilia Blencowe (1852-c 1929) shortly after the end of the Franco-Prussian war. Blencowe was born in 1852 in Northamptonshire. Her entries in the first volume begin in October 1870, and the last in the second volume are dated July 1872.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-1872
Extent:
2 volumes

2. Add MS 89256/1

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Title:
Travel Journal of Mary Cecilia Blencowe, 1870-71
Scope & Content:
First journal of travels made by Mary Cecilia Blencowe (1852-c 1929) shortly after the end of the Franco-Prussian war. Blencowe was born in 1852 in Northamptonshire. Her first entries are dated October 1870. There is then a short gap before an entry dated 27 March 1871 written in Dover, where her...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-1871
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 89256/2

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Title:
Travel Journal of Mary Cecilia Blencowe, 1871-2
Scope & Content:
The second volume begins in the middle of the same journey at that of volume 1. Blencowe travels through Genoa, Milan, Stresa, Iselle, Gondo, Brig, Lausanne, Vesoul and Paris before returning to London. She is particularly sad to leave Italy, writing that ‘we are leaving you much too soon. But t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
1 volume

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