Tour in France and Switzerland,

Journal of a tour in France and Switzerland, June-[September] 1833, made by Mrs C. Jones, lady's maid, apparently from north-east Wales, accompanying her employers, William Henry Fox Talbot of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, and his wife, Charlotte [Constance in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site] (née Munby), and Mademoiselle Amélina Petit de Billier (c. 1798-1876), family friend and former governess to William Talbot's half-sisters. Entries from 8 September, when she joined her new employer (see note under 544, below), a Miss York, in Geneva, until her return to England on 22 September, are in pencil, overwritten with transcripts of poetry; miscellaneous commonplace entries, 1833-c. 1858, were added by Mrs Jones both during and after the tour and later by other hands.

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Dylan's Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase; 1994

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23248A

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

March 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

'The gift of Mad[emoi]selle Petit to C. Jones June 18[ ]' and ticket of Atelier Guy, stationers, rue St Honoré, Paris, inside front cover, also later signature of J. Jones; 'November 15th [18]58' on f. 17 verso, 'Dec[embe]r 8th [18]55' on f. 38.

Accounts of the same tour, and the dismissal of Mrs Jones on 3 September 1833, are found in the contemporary diaries kept by Talbot and Mademoiselle Petit, preserved at Lacock Abbey.

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