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DOWSE, Elizabeth

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 7EDO

Held at: Women's Library

Title: DOWSE, Elizabeth

Date(s): 1826-1828

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 A box

Name of creator(s): Dowse | Elizabeth | fl 1824-1828 | traveller

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Miss Elizabeth Dowse (fl 1824-1828) set off in Sep 1826 to spend a winter at Nice with a friend sent there for the 'recovery of her health'. She appears to have travelled with a Mrs Athersole and the latter's niece, Miss Nevill. While presumably based in the South of France for two years, Miss Dowse travelled at various times in Switzerland and Italy. On 21 Sep 1828, the steam packet George IV brought her 'once more to old England'. The following day she states that she was 'at home at my father's after an absence of four years'. She must have been living in France 1824-1828.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of a manuscript journal of a tour of Europe, 1826-1828.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

The 19th century handwriting in the notebook is hard for a non-expert to read. The text may have been transcribed, as odd words have been written in, in pencil.

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The journal was bought at either a car boot or jumble sale and handed to one of the Friends of Lancashire Record Office, she in turn deposited it with The Fawcett Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Lancashire Record Office in 1998. Previous reference TD 470.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.