From sketch-book and diary

Also head and tail pieces in black and white on pp. 2, 3, 15, 27, 28, 30, 31, 54, 55, 76, 77, 88, 90, 91, 104, 105, 122, 123, 142, 143, and 160.

My diary must introduce you to Glenaragh, where I saw a land whose beauty was a revelation to me; a new delight unlike anything I had seen in my experiences of the world’s lovel...

I wish you would make a summer tour to Mayo. It is simple; yet what a change of scene, of sensations, of thoughts one secures by this simple and direct journey--Euston, Holyhead...

To the East! What a thrill of pleasure those words caused me when they meant that I was really off for Egypt. The East has always had for me an intense fascination, and it is on...

And now for Luxor. Of all the modes of travel there is none, to my mind, so enjoyable as that by water--fresh water, be it understood--and if you can do this in a house-boat wit...

Our subsequent experiences of Egypt at Alexandria from ‘90 to ‘93 made me acquainted with the Delta and that “Lower Nile” which has a very particular charm of its own, and posse...

I don’t know whether in the Atlantic that lies between England and America you have had calm moonlight nights such as, taking the ocean longitudinally, one may have an impressiv...

“Strange land; strange birds with startling cries; strange flowers; strange scents! I received a bouquet of welcome on my arrival composed of grass-green flowers with brilliant...

A descent from the Apennine on a September evening into Tuscany, with the moon nearly full--that moon which in a few days will be shining in all its power upon the delights of t...

A two days’ excursion to Sienna at the close of our second vintage at Caravaggio was a fit _finale_ to the last visit you and I ever paid to Italy _en garçon_.

Rome! I am almost inclined to leave out this central fact, although I never kept a fuller diary than I did during those seven months of my student life there that followed Flore...