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Saturday, July 13, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 July Saturday 13 3 3/4 Fine morning – Fahrenheit 73° at 4 1/4 a.m. – Off at 5 – At Quickvorn [Quickborn] at 7 10/.. – Good cultivation, grass and corn about Hamburg – Asleep – at 5 10/..,   Stopt 10 minutes – At Quickborn, asleep – Not much of a place – Paid as might be – Some moor about 1/2 way between Hamburg and Quickborn and ditto ditto between Quickborn and Bramstedt, nice little rather scattered picturesque town where we stopt to breakfast from 9 20/.. to 10 50/.. – coffee – little cups and milk as in England and bread and butter – 1 mark each – Nice, clean public room and nice, civil people, but as usual could not, through Gross, understand the money till a civil English speaking Dane came in, who explained to me intelligibly – Now at 11 1/4 = 6 1/4 meilen to Kiel –  Just as we came away, the Eilwagen Diligence arrived – 5 or 6 gentlemen had come in, one or more ladies seemed to be still in the diligence – 3 compartments or divisions as in France – Th
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Friday, July 12, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 July Friday 12  40 Schillings = 1 thaler and a gold William = 13 marks 12 shillings At Hamburg – Breakfast over at 8 3/4 = 9 1/4 by the Hamburg clocks.   I must put my watch forward 3/4 hour. 13 1/2 meilen at 20 shillings per cheval – Valet de place 3 marks a day = la taxe.   WYAS Finding Number SH/ML/TR/12/0034
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Thursday, July 11, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 July Thursday 11 Bremen – Sitting in the promenade (quondam ramparts) our laquais de place – His 2nd son (the oldest, head clerk with a banker here).   Sculptor at St. Petersburg – firm of Joh Deney’s and Dalfus, pronounced Jean Dennlise and Dalfoos , has 200 paper roubles par mois et logé and nourri – The premier commis chez le Banquier Boivens à Brême, has 700 to 800 thalers a year. Everywhere in Germany                                                                                        th.               ggr.                     pf.                                                                                       thalers     gutegroschen      pfennig Breakfast Café au lait and bread and butter each person        .                    4.                 00 Strawberries at present here and cherries                         } 1 lb. pound would be 2 plates enough for Ann and me } 1 lb. pound = 12 grotes =                                               }    
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Tuesday, August 20, 1839 Travel Journal (Partial Entry)

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1839 August Tuesday 20 4 1/4 10 35/.. Fine morning, Fahrenheit 58° at 5 a.m.   Good beds and slept well – Everywhere good beds, however small – Mine large last night – Pulled out 1/3 of its length – They generally pull out breadthwise – Ӧrebrö a nice neat, and, for Sweden, very good town – 2 little gateways (2 square posts) at each end of the town – The church large and good – The pillars inside gilded in imitation of fluting – A large plain, bounded in extremis in the great distance by wooded hill – The plain as seen from top of the church clear (i.e. of large and small boulderstone) except 2 or 3 patches – Corn and grass – oats and rye and barley the greater part cut and in stook or hung round poles to dry as near Drammen – Off from Ӧrebrö at 5 1/4 , putting my watch 1/4 hour forward.   Not much wood till Glanshammar at 6 52/.., single house, neat and good, with several outbuildings – Might have slept here very well – Nice foresty drive from Glanshammar – Sun
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Monday, August 19, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Monday 19 4 1/4 9 50/.. Off from Hasslerör at 5 1/4 a.m.   Fair but dull morning, Fahrenheit 61° at 4 1/2 a.m. 2 good little beds in 1 room and had another room – Comfortable, clean house – 2 or 3 cottages close by – The village, if there be more, is scattered at some distance.   Little hamlets or groups of unpainted huts scattered up and down – Wide open plain , i.e. granite-bouldered juniper and heather and bracken and cranberry-covered moor or pine forest with here and there birches and alders, except near the villages or hamlets or farms, where patches of ground are cleared and under cultivation – Sandy road, but good – Drier this morning and not heavy here – Enter forest at 5 1/2 (and now more spruce than ever before since Götheborg) which continues with greater or less breaks – But I have slept the greater part of the way, merely looking up now and then till 7 20/.., when the horses not getting on.   Told William to whip up – then to try stopping to
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Sunday, August 18, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Sunday 18 4 10 3/4 Fine morning, Fahrenheit 60 1/4° at 4 1/4 a.m. Barley, oats, peas etc.   Niceish, open country about Sollenbrun – Good, small as usual beds.   Ann poorlyish – Paid 4/12 rigsdalers = 2.40.0 Banco – Enough for our boiled milk and 6 eggs and butter and the little bit of brown bread I ate (the tea and sugar our own) – A few house scattered about near the Station and afterwards – Bäreberg a little hamlet, 1 3/4 miles at 6 3/4 = 1 mile per hour – Still fine, but clouds lowering – Bare, wide-extended, sterile plain country, heathery moor with patches of corn to the little scattered village of Bäreberg.   Neat little whitewashed church a little before coming to the station – Could not sleep there I think – The people going to church – all the men by themselves and all the women ditto in little companies – Very neatly and well clothed – 25 minutes here (at Bäreberg).   We had come faster than was expected – the horses not arrived – Off at
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Saturday, August 17, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Saturday 17 7 11 5/.. Rainy night and morning.   Fahrenheit 64 1/2° at 8 a.m. Breakfast and paying Mrs. Todd etc. till now, 10 1/4 – Then wrote out and sent off at 11 by Gross postage paid = 4 – 2/2 Dollars Banco = Banco 1.46.0, my letter to ‘Robert Parker, Esquire, solicitor , Halifax, Yorkshire England. ’   Parker’s letter quite right – He or Booth to write to me to the care of Messers Thomson and Bonar, St. Petersburg, which we hope to reach by the middle of next month – Hawkins to pay all expenses and send one barrel anchovies to Lady Stuart, Whitehall, and ask her butler how to direct and forward to Lady Vere Cameron and send another barrel to Lady Stuart de Rothesay, 4 Carlton House Terrace and the other to Lady Duff Gordon, 34 Hertford Street – Then had to wait for the harness – Not come now at 12.   In agony of impatience – The sadler 2 hours behind his time – Shall have all our horses to pay for – The coachmaker too not come to be paid – A gentlema
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Friday, August 16, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Friday 16  8 10/.. 12 10/.. Fine morning.   Fahrenheit 66° at 9 a.m. Had William Riddle at 9 1/4 and went to see about driving seat being put to the carriage – Breakfast at 9 3/4 and wrote the last 10 lines of the last page and so far of this till now, 11 5/.. – Went to the bank at 11 25/.., and there till 11 50/.. The gentle man very civil.   Gave 113 skillings per species for the 74 species that remained of his own money and 112 the present rate of exchange for the Christiania money that we had, but did not take the little money – only the paper.   Therefore exchanged 206 species for 74 at 113 skillings, and the rest at 112 skillings.   Received = 482 dollars, 10 skillings Banco – Messers Carnegie great sugar merchants – Their refinery at Clippen – Iron merchants and timber merchants – Their correspondents at Hull, Messers Wilson, Hudson and Company – All the iron at Dannemora contracted for at Hull – It is all of a particular quality; i.e., for makin
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Thursday, August 15, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Thursday 15   7 20/.. 12 10/..  Fine, sunny morning. Fahrenheit 80° in the sun at 8 1/2 a.m. and 70° half hour afterwards in the shade (in our small bedroom – 2 beds) – Dawdling over 1 thing or other till Ann was dressed – Breakfast at 9 1/2 in about 3/4 hour – Had Mrs. Todd – She does not know much about forbud-papers – Will send for an English man who speaks Swedish and would perhaps go with us for 2 dollars (banco?) a day – The bookseller told me yesterday, if I would send Gross, he would explain in German all about the forbud etc. – Gross went this morning – Saw probably the wrong person, and he would take no notice of him – Had just written so far now at 10 50/.. a.m.   Then till 12 40/.., counting over Norway money and had the Scotchman (Riddle) that Mrs. Todd proposes for our coachman – Asks 3 Dollars (banco?) a day – Expenses paid back, and 3 Dollars a day to the time of return – Norwegian money to be changed = 207.3.22 , and have besides a Danis
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Wednesday, August 14, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 August Wednesday 14 .. 9 50/.. and from that time sick all night and till at 7 40 this morning , when had just passed the Swedish tower and battery, I left my night-berth (to which Ann and I had returned at 8 last night) on the sofa and looked about – Gothenburg was in sight, but foremost Clippen and its piles of deals and much shipping – This fjord all bare low, granite (mammelonné) rock.   No wood or pasture till close to Götheborg.   Little bits here and there of garden and bits of garden or shrubbery or a few clumps of trees (not firs) – All bare here – all finely fir-wooded about Christiania – How striking the contrast – yet here the rocks are fine – The Prinds Carl stops at Clippen till this afternoon (3 p.m.?) and then starts for Copenhagen – Here (Clippen) we arrived at 8 – Were on board the little steamer (about 6 ladies and 6 gentlemen, and 1 or 2 men in the 2nd plads ). at 8 1/2, and landed at Götheborg and were at Todd’s hotel in 3 or 4 minutes at 9
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