Notebook – Winterton to Athens
Reference code
FOW/01/61/A
Title
Notebook – Winterton to Athens
Date
1906
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary of travels from London to Athens, including:
* the wagon-lit from London to Paris, connecting train to Marseilles, boat from Marseilles (with drawing of Stromboli from the sea) to Katakalo, return train journey to Olympia (Palestra, Byzantine Church, Temple of Zeus, Temple of Hera, Museum);
* Boat from Katakalo to Milos, Patmos (monastery of St John), Samos, Delos (excavations and museum), Nauplia [Nafplio], Argos, Mycenae, Tiryns, the Hieron near Epidaurus, Aegina, Phaleron and Piraeus, Athens (Acropolis, Parthenon, Areopagus), Eleusis (Sacred Way and Daphne), Diplon.
Observations of landscapes, excavations, architecture, flora, food and drink, life aboard the boat.
Includes:
* Letter to Canon Fowler dated 2 November 1906 from Mr [Lowe?] with thanks and comments on his notes;
* Postcard with watercolour of plant, grown from a cutting of a currant bush in Patmos, signed ‘HGF’ [Mr Fisher];
* Prints of images related to Asklepios and his temple;
* Letter from J G Frazer of Trinity College Cambridge, dated 27 May 1906 regarding the location of a statue of Asklepios;
* Labelled pen and ink topographical drawing of Aegina;
* Rubbing of the inscription on the base of the statue of Athena Hygieia.
* the wagon-lit from London to Paris, connecting train to Marseilles, boat from Marseilles (with drawing of Stromboli from the sea) to Katakalo, return train journey to Olympia (Palestra, Byzantine Church, Temple of Zeus, Temple of Hera, Museum);
* Boat from Katakalo to Milos, Patmos (monastery of St John), Samos, Delos (excavations and museum), Nauplia [Nafplio], Argos, Mycenae, Tiryns, the Hieron near Epidaurus, Aegina, Phaleron and Piraeus, Athens (Acropolis, Parthenon, Areopagus), Eleusis (Sacred Way and Daphne), Diplon.
Observations of landscapes, excavations, architecture, flora, food and drink, life aboard the boat.
Includes:
* Letter to Canon Fowler dated 2 November 1906 from Mr [Lowe?] with thanks and comments on his notes;
* Postcard with watercolour of plant, grown from a cutting of a currant bush in Patmos, signed ‘HGF’ [Mr Fisher];
* Prints of images related to Asklepios and his temple;
* Letter from J G Frazer of Trinity College Cambridge, dated 27 May 1906 regarding the location of a statue of Asklepios;
* Labelled pen and ink topographical drawing of Aegina;
* Rubbing of the inscription on the base of the statue of Athena Hygieia.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary