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Reference	1720/843
Level	Item
Title	Letters written to his parents from abroad by William Money-Kyrle.
Description	His travels were undertaken for health reasons. The itinerary included Marseilles – Genoa – Pisa –Naples – Rome – Sicily – Malta – Patras – Corinth – Athens – Corfu – Milan – Florence – Rome – Smyrna – Istanbul – Kiev – Moscow – St. Petersburg – Berlin – Constantinople – Alexandria – Cairo – Mount Sinai – Akaba – Beirut – Jerusalem – Damascus – Tripoli – Istanbul – Vienna – Munich. As well as family matters, the letters deal with: Naples, Vesuvius and Pompeii; Milan; Rome; Corfu; a snow storm in the Apennines; Florence; St. Petersburg; Potsdam; Berlin; Alexandria; Mehemet Ali; the ‘howling’ of female mourners at Egyptian funerals; Egypt and the Nile; travelling in a desert caravan; Jerusalem; Bethlehem; Palmyra; an earthquake at Istanbul.
Date	1843-1846
Extent	28 letters

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