Notebook – Eastern Mediterranean (1)
Reference code
FOW/01/67
Title
Notebook – Eastern Mediterranean (1)
Date
1909
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diaries of a voyage in the Eastern Mediterranean in March and April 1909.
Includes details of train and boat travel around Sicily, Greece and Turkey, including numerical references in red pen to picture cards in FOW/01/68a. Includes observations on the aftermath of the December 1908 earthquake in the Strait of Messina, historical sites, food and accommodation, visit of the Sultan to the Hamidiyeh Mosque in Constantinople [Istanbul].
Photographs (9cm by 6cm) adhered to the pages of the notebook: Villefranche (1); Ajaccio (1); Palermo - ‘emigrants on a steamer in harbour at Palermo, watching us’, South porch of Cathedral (2); Cathedral and cloisters of Monreale (2); Messina viewed from the sea (5); Morosini Fountain in Candia (1); Knossos (2); Budrum [Bodrum, Turkey] (1); remains of Byzantine aqueduct at Selcuk (1); ruins at Ephesus (1); Constantinople (8) - Seraglio Point, ‘Dancing Dervishes’ Place’, ‘Group outside S.Sophia’, obelisk and minarets of S. Sophia, Serpent column, dogs near Pera Palace Hotel, walls and gateway; Streets in Brussa [Bursa, Turkey] (2); Athens (15) – Parthenon, Erechtheum, the Furies’ cave, enclosing wall of Pnyx, monastery of Daphni, Metropole (Cathedral Church), Monastiri station, excavation by Tower of Winds, Choragic monument of Lysikrates.
Also includes:
* photoprint of the casino, Monte Carlo;
* letter from Sommerville Grieve dated 26 July 1909 acknowledging receipt of JTF’s notebooks.
Includes details of train and boat travel around Sicily, Greece and Turkey, including numerical references in red pen to picture cards in FOW/01/68a. Includes observations on the aftermath of the December 1908 earthquake in the Strait of Messina, historical sites, food and accommodation, visit of the Sultan to the Hamidiyeh Mosque in Constantinople [Istanbul].
Photographs (9cm by 6cm) adhered to the pages of the notebook: Villefranche (1); Ajaccio (1); Palermo - ‘emigrants on a steamer in harbour at Palermo, watching us’, South porch of Cathedral (2); Cathedral and cloisters of Monreale (2); Messina viewed from the sea (5); Morosini Fountain in Candia (1); Knossos (2); Budrum [Bodrum, Turkey] (1); remains of Byzantine aqueduct at Selcuk (1); ruins at Ephesus (1); Constantinople (8) - Seraglio Point, ‘Dancing Dervishes’ Place’, ‘Group outside S.Sophia’, obelisk and minarets of S. Sophia, Serpent column, dogs near Pera Palace Hotel, walls and gateway; Streets in Brussa [Bursa, Turkey] (2); Athens (15) – Parthenon, Erechtheum, the Furies’ cave, enclosing wall of Pnyx, monastery of Daphni, Metropole (Cathedral Church), Monastiri station, excavation by Tower of Winds, Choragic monument of Lysikrates.
Also includes:
* photoprint of the casino, Monte Carlo;
* letter from Sommerville Grieve dated 26 July 1909 acknowledging receipt of JTF’s notebooks.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary