New Search  |  Browse by Location  |  Browse by Subject  |  Browse all entries  |  Map
Results:  1 Item 
Locations
Biarritz (1)
Dover (1)
Dresden (1)
Florence (1)
Genoa (1)
Liverpool (1)
London (1)
Marseille (1)
Monte Carlo (1)
Naples (1)
1.Title:  Fox Family Journals (1785, 1790, 1883)
 Dates:  1785 - 1884 
 Extent:  3 volumes  
 Locations:  Biarritz | Dover | Dresden | Florence | Genoa | London | Liverpool | Marseille | Monte Carlo | Naples | Nice | Paris | Pisa | Rome | Turin | Venice 
 Abstract:  The Fox Family Papers include three quite dissimilar journals spanning generations of the Fox family. The first two volumes are from the late-eighteenth century (1785 and 1790) and both appear to have been maintained by George Fox, a prominent Philadelphia doctor and close friend of William Temple Franklin. The first journal features some entries from 1785, though few are sequential. Fox records both a transatlantic voyage (6/25/1785) and and various trips throughout continental Europe later that fall. This volume might be better described as a commonplace book than a journal, with numerous quotations, historical notes, and data, including at least one note about Buffon, written in French. A second volume, also presumably recorded by George Fox, contains accounts from the year 1790. Finally, a descendent, Sara Fox, furnishes a European travel diary from nearly one-hundred years later. That volume recounts Fox's sightseeing in England, France, Germany and Italy between 1883-1884. These volumes may interest scholars researching the Fox family, transatlantic travel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and women's history. 
    
 
    
The Fox Family Papers include three quite dissimilar journals spanning generations of the Fox family. The first two volumes are from the late-eighteenth century (1785 and 1790) and both appear to have been maintained by George Fox, a prominent Philadelphia doctor and close friend of William Temple Franklin. The first journal features some entries from 1785, though few are sequential. Fox records both a transatlantic voyage (6/25/1785) and and various trips throughout continental Europe later that fall. This volume might be better described as a commonplace book than a journal, with numerous quotations, historical notes, and data, including at least one note about Buffon, written in French. A second volume, also presumably recorded by George Fox, contains accounts from the year 1790. Finally, a descendent, Sara Fox, furnishes a European travel diary from nearly one-hundred years later. That volume recounts Fox's sightseeing in England, France, Germany and Italy between 1883-1884. These volumes may interest scholars researching the Fox family, transatlantic travel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and women's history.
 
View Full Description in New Window
 
  
 Subjects:  Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. | Commonplace books. | Diaries. | Europe. | Philadelphia history | Travel. | Women--History. 
 Collection:  Fox Family papers, ca. 1690-1915  (Mss.B.F832f)  
  Go to the collection