File A5. - Turin, Pisa and Florence journal

Journal containing holograph notes on Senior's visits to Turin, Pisa and Florence, 25 October-7 December 1850. The state of French and Italian politics is discussed with: Beaumont; Faucher; Sir James Stephen (1789-1859); Marquis Sauli; Cavour (1810-61); Count Castelborgo; Marquis Cavour [elder brother of the Cavour]; Marquis Arconati (1797-1873); Count Balbo (1789-1853); Marquis Alfieri [Sostegno]; Giacinto Collegno (1794-1856); Giuseppe Massari (1805-72); Count Sclopis (1798-1878); M. Cordova (1811-67); Count Persano (1806-83); Philip Taylor (1786-1870); Abercromby; Chevalier Rossi [Belgian consul]; Marquis Torrearsa (1808-89); Vincenzo Salvagnoli (1802-61); Duke Serra di Falco; Peter Cambell Scarlett (1804-81); General Sir Frederick Adam (1781-1853); Sir George Bowyer (1811-53); Benjamin Spence (1822-66), et al. Topics of discussion include: French foreign policy and the law curtailing press freedom; poor-law in England; Socialism; the Siccardi laws; the French invasion; the events of 1848 in Italy; Catholicism in England; law, church and medicine in Italy; ministries of the Piedmont; the battle of Novara; the Piedmontese army; the events in the Chamber of Deputies, 1850; the Sardinian navy; the economic policy of the Piedmontese government; Austrian army; Tuscan politics; Italian architecture; the possibility of a German war; Austria; and 'Italian society of bores'. There are descriptions of the journey to Italy; art and architecture in Italy; and a visit to a ball at Mrs Trollope's [Frances Trollope (1780-1863), novelist mother of Anthony Trollope].
[Published in: Journals Kept in France..., vol. I, pp. 281-352].