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Notebook – Saltburn, Tiree and Iona, Holland and Belgium, Denmark

Reference code
FOW/01/45
Title
Notebook – Saltburn, Tiree and Iona, Holland and Belgium, Denmark
Date
1893-1894
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diaries relating to various stays or travels:
* stay at Saltburn (1893) for massage, brine bath, douche and needle treatments.
* travels to and around Tiree and Iona, including drawings of crosses, landscapes, churches and other sights.
* travels in Holland and Belgium (1894) ‘with EF and the Georges’, includes notes relating to visits to Amsterdam (Fodor museum, ethnological museum, zoological gardens), Haarlem, Leiden, Brussels(College of St Michael Library), Brugge, Antwerp.
* travels in Denmark (August 1894), including visits to Nordby (Fanø), Fredericia and Middelfart, Faaborg, Mariebo and drawings of a Danish contraption for sawing wood.

Also includes notes on Ruskin Museum, logic puzzles, buildings at Iona, and various manuscripts (including in relation to Tempest pedigree).
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary