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A journal of John Thomas for the period 3 November 1853-8 April 1854, his first season in Paris, including entries of visits made and received, and performances given at concerts and soirées.

Journals of Joan Denny describing a tour in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, August-October 1878 (MS 23404A, pp. 1-80; MS 23405A, pp. 1-130), and a visit to Vienna, Munich and Nuremberg, May 1880 (MS 23405A, pp. 131-154).

A journal of Henry Richard's visits to France, April-May 1849, July-August [?1849], March-April 1856, and April 1861.

Notes on a tour through parts of Belgium, northern France, and southern England, and memoranda.

The journal, 11 November 1671-1673, of [Henry] Herbert during his tour of military duty in France, including three poems (one by Vavasor Powell) on the late king Charles [I].

Copy, [1610x1624], of ‘Observations of France’, by Sir George Carew, ambassador to France before 1610, together with a typescript review of the document, [1965xc.1990], by John Butler of the University of Manitoba.

Journal, 1770, of [?Henry Arthur Herbert], kept during a tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, together with an account of glaciers.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, March 1921-June 1924, containing diary entries, ideas for fiction, comments on the progress of her work and impressions of holidays in Vichy, Brittany and Haute Savoie, France; a few extracts were later incorporated in her autobiographical volume A Story-teller tells the Truth (London, 1935).
Letters and papers, 1921-1933, found loose inside have been filed separately (NLW MS 23569iiC).

Forty-six manuscript and typescript letters, [c. 1890]-[c. 1934], from Berta Ruck, mostly to her father, Col Arthur Ashley Ruck, [1920s]-[c. 1934], containing mainly personal and family news.
Also included are two letters to her grandmother Mary Anne Ruck, [c. 1890] (ff. 1-4), and a carbon copy letter to her sister-in-law, Georgina Ruck, 15 July 1932 (ff. 86-91). Most of the letters were written either from home or while on holiday in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden. There are references to Oliver Onions (ff. 6-100 passim), Geoffrey Moss (f. 6), Sir Ray Lankester (ff. 9 verso, 10 verso-11, 12, 31, 32, 66), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (ff. 13-17, 18, 29, 46-47, 56, 59), Alec Waugh (ff. 26, 35-36) and Vita Sackville West (f. 46); she also describes her car accident on 14 July 1932 (ff. 88-91). There are ink drawings by Ruck on f. 2 recto-verso.

The diary, 1839-1841, of Sarah Pahud (née Walker), daughter of a Dolgellau family and wife of Henri Pahud, a Swiss born Paris businessman. The diary is written in English and French.
Pahud describes her honeymoon tour with her husband through France (English, pp. 1-8), Italy (French, pp. 8-30), Switzerland (French, pp. 31-46) and Germany (French, pp. 46-51), April-June 1839; a journey from Paris to Manchester via Dover and London, October 1839 (French, pp. 52-56); and a visit to her family in Dolgellau, travelling via Paris, London and Chester and returning via Birmingham and London, June-September 1841 (English, pp. 56-96). She also visits friends in Barmouth (pp. 75-79) and Ruthin (pp. 80-87) and describes the consecration service of St David's Chapel, Denbigh, 27 August 1841 (pp. 84-85). There are references to Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, with an eyewitness account of Chopin's perceived state of health, 3 May 1839 (pp. 7-8). There are also a few further miscellaneous memoranda, [1858] (ff. 114, 184).

Nineteen holograph letters written mainly to A. C. Ramsay. The writers include J. Fred. Bateman, Westminster, 1877 (the application of the Corporation of Manchester to Parliament for power to take water from Thirlmere), Charlotte A. M. Cookman, Dolau Cothy, 1876 (personal, news of friends, the hot water system at Dolau Cothy, the publication of Bishop Thirlwall's Welsh sermons by Canon Phillips of Aberystwyth), Eliza Dymock, undated (the honour conferred on the recipient), James Geikie, Geological Survey of Scotland, from Perth, 1879 (observations on the glaciation of the gorge of the Rhone and of the Faroe Islands), Franz v. Hauer, Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, [1]882 (a toast to the writer at the dinner of the London Geological Society), Leonard Horner [from London], undated (the meeting of the Council [of the Geological Society], the rejection of exhibits at the Museum), W. P. Jervis, Regio Museo Industriale Italiano, Turin, 1882 (the writer's publications on the geology of Italy, an offer of specimens for the Jermyn Street Museum), Cha[ rles] Lyell, Bristol, 1843 (arranging to meet the recipient (one signature cut away), J. Milne, Tokio, 1882 (the writer's experiments with artificial earthquakes) (incomplete), James Nasmyth, Penshurst, Kent, 1879 (the writer's work on casting specula for reflecting telescopes, with reference to a speculum cast for Richard Green, M.D.), J. C. Ramsay [from Demeraire] to his brother [William Ramsay], undated (the recipient's proposed Continental tour) (incomplete), M. Louisa Ramsay, Hyeres, France, to 'Willie' [son of William Ramsay], undated (a professorship at Bristol for the recipient, personal, observations on France), W. Ramsay, Glasgow, 1880 (news of family and friends), Berthold Schlesinger, M℗♭©žhr-Ostrau, 1881 (the presence of strontianite in Scotland), Ange Sismonda, Museo Mineralogico di Torino, Turin, 1878 (a request for a copy of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom), Edward Thring, The School House, Uppingham, Rutland, [18]83 (a request to place the recipient's name on the General Committee), J[ohn] Williams, Treffos, Bangor, 1867 (observations on the recipient's letter concerning St. David's horns [at Llanddewibrefi]), and E. Woodall, undated (the recipient's contemporaries at Cambridge University) (incomplete). Some of the letters are addressed to the School of Mines, Jermyn Street [London], to the Ordnance Survey, Marshfield, near Bath, and to Wooton-under-edge. At the end of the volume are two sheets of extracts relating to the 'petrified horn which hung in the church of Llanddewibrefi ' ('Matgorn yr ych bannog' or 'Matgorn ych Dewi').

A brief account of a tour to Calais, Lille, Brussels, etc., 1870.

Journals of Henry Richard's visit to Berlin, June-July 1878, and a tour of France and Switzerland, August-September 1882.

Journal, 1915-16, of the Reverend John Islan Jones, Cribyn, containing an account of a tour of Switzerland and France, 1914, and visits to the Lake District and North Wales, 1908-15.

Journals kept by Frances (Fanny) Williams Wynn during tours in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy, 1833-1840. Some of the journals contain engravings and original sketches.

An account of travels in France by Thomas Hanmer [of Fenns Hall], c. 1728, together with some draft and holograph letters, miscellaneous notes, etc., 1725/6-1731 and undated. The correspondents include M. Bernége, Turin, Jean Escher, Zurich, T[homas] Stephens, C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege], C[ambridge], and A. Bosatty, Bologna.

Papers of Rose Mabel Lewis, 1873-1917, comprising journals, 1874-1912, including a journal containing an account of her honeymoon journey to the USA and Canada, together with a short story, 'The Shepherd Lord', notes on painting, knitting patterns and cookery recipes and other journals containing details of journeys to Jamaica, London and France, Las Palmas and Brittany; literary manuscripts, including notebooks with poetry and prose drafts, 1873-[c. 1914]; and printed material, 1891, 1917.