- A7.
- File
- 1851
Part of Nassau Senior papers
Journal containing holograph notes on Senior's visit to Sorrento, 25 January-22 February 1851. Discusses state of politics in France with Tocqueville and Jean Jacques Ampere (1800-64). There are also brief conversations with Marquis St. Angelo and Troya. Topics of discussion include the clergy in England; Catholicism in France; celibacy; the clash between the Assembly and Louis Napoleon; constitutions of England and France; the Poor Law Amendment Act; Tocqueville's experiences in Algeria; French writers of the eighteenth century; diplomats of the early nineteenth century; Franco-Italian and Franco-Austrian relations; the Russian army; Poerio's imprisonment; and Franco-Russian relations. There are descriptions of various journeys made by S.
[Published in: Correspondence-, vol. I, pp. 178-243].