Journal of tours through France and Italy
- NLW MS 17133A.
- Ffeil
- 1824
Rhan oGwysaney manuscripts
Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of France and Italy, February-May 1824.
Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853
Journal of tours through France and Italy
Rhan oGwysaney manuscripts
Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of France and Italy, February-May 1824.
Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853
Journal of tours through France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy
Rhan oGwysaney manuscripts
Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853
Journal of tours through North Wales and France
Rhan oGwysaney manuscripts
Journal, 1815-1821, written in equal parts French and English, by Philip Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Flintshire, of tours through North Wales and France in the company of David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire.
The entries comprise a tour of North Wales from Downing to Chirk, Denbighshire, July-[August] 1815 (English, pp. 341-368); a tour through France via Orleans, the Loire Valley, Brittany, Aunis and Saintonge, Aquitaine, Pyrenees, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine and Lyon, May-July 1818 (English, pp.1-156); from Sheffield to Holywell, October 1819 (English, pp. 335-340); and from Paris to Champagne, Piedmont, Genoa, Provence and Nice, Monaco and Burgundy, travelling mainly by boat, October 1820-January 1821 (French, pp. 158-335). The entries emphasise the history, antiquities and culture of the places visited. The main entries are written on the versos with addenda on the rectos opposite.
Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853