Letter, SS Saghalieu, Marseilles

Subjects: 1) Embarkation at Marseilles onto the SS Saghalieu, 2) Description of 3rd class accommodation on board, 3) Fellow passengers, 4) Sea sickness, 5) French ladies’ night time party, 6) Daily routine, meals and occupations, including learning Chinese with Mr Judd, 7) Monte Christo, Stromboli a...

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Date(s) of creation: March [30], 1887
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Summary: Subjects: 1) Embarkation at Marseilles onto the SS Saghalieu, 2) Description of 3rd class accommodation on board, 3) Fellow passengers, 4) Sea sickness, 5) French ladies’ night time party, 6) Daily routine, meals and occupations, including learning Chinese with Mr Judd, 7) Monte Christo, Stromboli and Sicily, 8) Escape and recapture of white bull, 9) Visit to the hold to retrieve items from cabin boxes, 10) Relationships with French ladies; lost earring.
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Language: English
Copies: Transcript available in J. D. Owen, J. Gullick & S. McClure (eds.), 'Married to a Missionary: Constance Douthwaite's letters to her family, 1887-1896, with additional letters from her husband Arthur Douithwaite MD', unpublished, 2009 [copy available in Special Collections Reading Room]
Format: Archive