The Letters of John B. S. Morritt of Rokeby

Descriptive of Journeys in Europe and Asia Minor in the Years 1794â"1796

By: John B. S. Morritt, George Eden Marindin (Editor)

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This works is an account by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771 1843), traveller, classical scholar and friend of Sir Walter Scott, of his Grand Tour during the years 1794 6. His letters home were edited by G. E. Marindin (1841 1939) and published in 1914. In 1790 Morritt inherited the Rokeby estate, County Durham, and came into a considerable fortune. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he graduated in 1794, and soon afterwards set out for the continent. Visiting Constantinople, Troy, the Greek islands, Crete, Naples, Rome and Venice, Morritt developed a lifelong passion for European art and culture (he purchased the Rokeby Venus in 1813). He was well-read in Greek and Latin literature, had a considerable taste for antiquarian research, and was undeterred by the dangers of traversing Europe during the French Revolutionary Wars. According to his editor, 'it would be difficult to imagine a better traveller'."

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Preface
Journey from Ostend to Dresden
Vienna - the Polish insurrection
Journey from Vienna to Constantinople, with some digressions about Vienna and Styria
Constantinople
Travels in Asia Minor and Samos
The Troad and the site of the Homeric Troy: the Islands of Chios and Lesbos
From Athos and Salonica through Thessaly and Boeotia: Athens
Through the Morea, including the territory of the Mainotes in Laconia
Aegean Islands: Crete
Olympia and the Ionian Islands
Naples
From Rome, through Trieste and Vienna, to Cuxhaven
Index
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