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 = } . 4. 00
Bon dejeuner à la fourchette
3 plates }
Cotelettes, omlette, and 1
vegetable enough }
for Ann and me (1 thaler = 24
ggr gutegroschen) } 1. 0. 0
But for each cutlet and potatoes
or a }
beef steak and ditto per one
person, 12 grotes } . 4. 0
one bottle good vin ordinaire red 30 grotes . . 10. 0
white
24 ditto . 8. 0
Beds 1/2 a thaler each in a good room au 1er premier and pay half this sum in little hotels.
At Hamburg in paying, they
count Schillings like grotes here.
In the South of Germany at
Munich etc. and at St. Petersburg, 1 thaler = 2 florins and count florins as
one counts thalers here.
A grande maison dans la ville
(Bremen), 300 thalers per annum – Perhaps on the Ramparts for the same
or something more – A young man had 2 or 3 pièces (rooms) for 100 thalers per
annum. One can build a very good house, 7
pièces à feu (with fire-places), for 3,000 thalers.
Chez la Restaurateur, 5 thalers
per mois par personne pour le diner – One must fetch it – Cuisiniers chez-chers-filles
25 thalers per annum – Cuisinier 200 thalers
per annum
Veils – If Ann and I dined out, should give 1/2 thaler a
piece to the servants of the house. One
gives it to the servant en sortant who shews one to the carriage – Cela se fait
en Brême (c’est un Trinkgeld – et probably everywhere in Germany – Un
valet 50 to 60 thalers per annum nourri, logé et livré, i.e., coat waistcoat
and pantalon, and chapeau, – two suits, morning and evening –
Good calêche = 300 to 400 thalers
A coupé (grande voiture de
visite) coute le double –
Joh Doney’s and Dalfus, Jen
Deneys (Denneise) and Dalfus, Dalfoos, sculptors at St. Petersburg, très connus
–
Our valet’s son has 200 paper
roubles per mois – et il est logé and nourri – The older brother (ætatis 33) is
premier commis chez le premier banquier ici (Boiven). Has 700 to 800 thalers per annum
En Holstein, the horses rather
cheaper – Very good one for 100 thalers – Meat very dear – 6 or 7 or 8 grotes
la livre. In general only 1/2 that price
– but scarcity of fourrage last winter and much cattle lost –
White bread 3 or 4 grotes a pound,
pain noir 2 grotes, and la beurre, 15 grotes a pound, very dear – Generally 10
grotes a pound – They send so much to America – The butter comes here from La
Frise, Embden, etc.
The cellars airy and light, but
keep the wine better when they are close (without air) and dark.
Roth-house, beautiful
boiserie – ceiling boarded and painted,
joists and all (and the German Emperors down the middle – Wood columns below). Papered – The Statue of Roland in the market
place 18 feet high –
Cathedral Lutheran – 20,000
Lutherans form its congregation – Whitewashed with gold stars in the ceiling –
Very neat – Shining brass railing of choir, raised many steps above the
nave – pretty tree, shrubbery, and flower planted promenades on the Ramparts –
At the last of the 2 Bremen
barriers at 3 25/.. – Environs of Brême picturesque – The sandy ground
made the most of – Good pasturage, and hay and rye, and some millet – Calêche
and 3 horses close before us – The peat moor begins in part very soon
(at 3 35/..) after the last barrier – and one lopped poplar avenue is succeeded
by 2 rows of apple trees, one on each side the road – our next barrier is in
Hanover at 3 38/.. – At 3 48/.. stop to bait –
WYAS Finding Numbers
SH/ML/TR/12/0036, SH/ML/TR/12/0035, and
SH/ML/TR/12/0034
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