1896 Grand Tour Scrapbook to the Engadine (Switzerland)
Scope and Contents
Day-by-day diary entries for events occurring during Charles Wellington Lloyd’s Grand Tour of Europe. In addition to manuscript annotations, Lloyd also attached ephemeras like maps and postcards. He included details in his records such as altitudes of mountains, railway bridges, stations, tunnels, towns and departure times. His wife, Phoebe, also signed her name next to a few observations as well.
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Dates
- Creation: 1896
Creator
- Lloyd, Charles Wellington (Person)
- Lloyd, Phoebe (Person)
Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
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Biographical / Historical
Charles Wellington Lloyd (1846-1913) was born a British man who made a grand tour of Europe in 1896 to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Along with his wife Phoebe and three friends. Based on his comments, it can be noted that the trip perhaps was a prearranged tour as the travelers knew where to make connections for railways, steamboats, stagecoaches, and always had hotel arrangements to go to after a long-distance traveling day.
The grand tour was a custom in seventeenth, eighteenth, and early-nineteenth century in which members of the upper class took trips around Europe, and Italy, in particular. These tours were frequently taken by young men as a coming-of-age ritual like Percy Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron, but were also popular with older people, as well. In the Victorian period, Grand Tours became particularly popular with British people as depicted in E.M. Forster’s “A Room with a View.”
Extent
1 Linear Feet ([1] Volume in box) : 1 Volume, 29 x 24 cm, 109 pages, 80 pages in manuscript, 103 pieces of ephemera, folded maps, broadsides, etc. laid in, half-red leather, red Morocco grained cloth boards, silk endpapers.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A nineteenth-century scrapbook/travelogue of Charles Wellington Lloyd that documents an account of a Victorian Era grand tour to Switzerland mainly by railroad.
Arrangement
The travelogue is arranged chronologically.
Acquisition Information
Purchased March 8, 2024 from Gerald W. Cloud rare book dealer.
Function
Genre / Form
Topical
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Eleanor Nothelfer
- Date
- 2024-08-06
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Lehigh University Library and Technology Services.
Revision Statements
- 2026-05-12: Finding aid revised and finalized by Lila Goldenberg
Repository Details
Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository
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