Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. So, famously, begins The go-between by L.P. Hartley. I was a visitor to that foreign country recently; my passport, the cartes […]
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. So, famously, begins The go-between by L.P. Hartley. I was a visitor to that foreign country recently; my passport, the cartes […]
1st April 1860:
Sunday April 1st. Sailed the Nordskov Norwr and…
31st March 1860:
Saturday 31st. Sailed the Twilight of Mystic and…
30th March 1860:
Friday 30th. Aboard the Ida. Arrived the Shalimar…
29th March 1860:
Thursday 29th. The mail arrived. Aboard…
28th March 1860:
Wednesday 28th. Arrived the Australia…
27th March 1860
Tuesday 27th. Arrived the Hermann of Bremen and the…
26th March 1860:
Monday 26th. Fishing at Middle Island, and aboard…
The first time I came across The 39 Steps I was in London with my family. We were in Piccadilly Circus and thanks to my aunt I ended up watching […]
25th March 1860:
Sunday 25th. Aboard the Confidence.