Notebook – ‘Tours and back, 1898’
Reference code
FOW/01/52
Title
Notebook – ‘Tours and back, 1898’
Date
1898
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary of a cycling tour in France, with stops in Havre, Honfleur, Elbeuf, Louviers, Evreux, Chartres, Châteaudun, Vendome, Chateau Renault, Tours, Neuillé-Pont-Pierre, Écommoy, Le Mans, Solesmes, Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Alencon, Sees, Lisieux, Havre.
Includes recipes, notes on food, accommodation, local sights along his cycle route and churches, together with a printed advertisement for ‘Conserve d’Escargots’ available at the Hotel de l’Ouest in Chartres, Vendome, Le Pessis.
[About half of this notebook is blank.]
Includes recipes, notes on food, accommodation, local sights along his cycle route and churches, together with a printed advertisement for ‘Conserve d’Escargots’ available at the Hotel de l’Ouest in Chartres, Vendome, Le Pessis.
[About half of this notebook is blank.]
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary