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                         BY-GONE TOURIST DAYS




                         By-gone Tourist Days
                           Letters of Travel


                          By LAURA G. COLLINS
                 Author of “Immortelles and Asphodels”

                              ILLUSTRATED

    “I consider letters the most vital part of literature”
            --_Elizabeth Barrett Browning_

               CINCINNATI THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY 1900

                           Copyright, 1899,

                     By The Robert Clarke Company.




                             INSCRIPTION.


              _Respectfully inscribed to the dear friends
                   to whom the letters were written,
                        and by them preserved._




CONTENTS.


LONDON LETTER--April 7, 1882,.....1

Trip on the Atlantic--The Steamer Adriatic--Storm
on the Ocean--Chester--English Cathedrals--To
Liverpool--Chatsworth--Stratford--The 318th Anniversary of
Shakespeare--Oxford--Magdalen College--“Addison’s Walk”--New
College--Sir Joshua Reynolds-Window--At Warwick--Bodlean
Library--Ashmolean Museum--Spofford Brooks and Canon Liddon.

LONDON LETTER--June 11, 1882,.....16

Seeing London--Advantage of being in a great city--The boarding-house,
just for Americans--Windsor Palace--Gray’s grave--Moncure Conway--Canon
Farrar--Bostonians--American Cousins--From London on the way to
Scotland.

FROM LONDON TO EDINBURGH--July 4, 1882,.....22

Four hours at York--The Nuns of St. Leonard’s