Stuk 12.5 - 'Remarks [by John Wordsworth] on Handbook for travellers on the Continent'

5 folded sheets, kept together as unbound booklet.

Notes made by John Wordsworth in relation to A Handbook for travellers on the Continent : being a guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland..., first edition published by John Murray & Son, London 1936, after a tour of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in Jul.-Sept. 1837.

Comments, with relevant page references, on inns and hotels, transport, places and sights of interest etc. Wordsworth complains (pp. 6-7) about being detained at Malmedy 'till our carriage and every article it contained had been most carefully searched by a rude barbarian who stormed and threatened us, for not declaring two or three trifling articles of Spa manufacture, which we did not know were subject to duty. This is the only time that I ever remember to have been rudely treated by any Prussian officer of Police or Customs'

Small amount of repetition of material from p 5 to p. 9 (notes on Thorwaldsen's statue of Gutemberg at Mainz, etc); portion on p. 9 crossed through.