Box 5A
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Hortensia Mordecai (b. 1830) Travel Diary, 1859
File — Box: 5A, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Nearly daily journal of travel through Nice, Monaco, Genoa, Leghorn (where she saw a carnival), Rome (where she visited Harriet Hosmer and other sculptors_ studios), Pompeii and Herculaneum (Mt. Vesuvius erupted), Florence, Mantua, Milan, Venice, Trieste (glimpsing Emperor Franz Joseph III), Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, where the family stayed. In Paris, she mentions Ransom Calhoun & Mr. Preston, Mr. Ogier, Dr. Horlbeck & family, "Miss Lewis, the poetess," Boston Editor...
Dates:
1859