Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...

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Contains a few pages concerning a visit to Rome, 1853.

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Sir Robert Liston wrote this letter to his sister Henrietta from Rome while accompanying Thomas Johnes of Haford on his extended Grand Tour. In it he comments on Italian society in Rome and particularly the appearance of the women there. The letter includes an account of an audience with Pope Clement XIV.

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In favour of Mr and Mrs Samuel Palmer.

Scope and Contents Emily Jackson departed from Edinburgh on 18 August 1887 with her sisters Ina, Jane, Joanna and Alice Maule, and travelled to Kilmorack Manse, Inverness, where they stayed until 21 September 1887. Narrative of Italian tour starts on 4 December 1891 after the family arrived in Rome until their departure on 9 February 1892. The narrative restarts on 7 April when the family travelled to Venice finishing on 22 April. There are a number of lists at the back of the journal...

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John Jackson and his family left Edinburgh on 31 October for Glasgow to sail on the S.S. Columbia bound for Gibraltar. They travelled to Genoa, Leghorn (Livorno), Castellammare, Naples, Pompeii and Rome where they stayed for two months visiting Roman antiquities. They journeyed to Siena, and Florence, where the narrative stops on 16 March 1892.