An Overview of this Project

“Grandtour1913″ is a collection of travel letters written between 1912 and 1914.  The writer is a young, American woman, Alice Ross (1890-1980).  Her trip takes her through the Pacific, Australia, Asia, and from Istanbul home on the Orient Express.

To read the entire project like a book, choose the earliest dated post on the right hand margin, and read forward from there.  The most recently dated post will be the end of her journey. To sample the very best posts:  in the search area type in five asterixes “*****”.  This was my way of marking for myself the superior letters.

There are about 70 letters in the collection.  In this blog form, the letters were posted once a week, as if she were writing to us from the past.  Dramatis Personae, an additional page,  gives simple notes on some of the main characters, but like the personalities found in a novel, they will reveal themselves as the story unfolds.

Be sure to check out the photographs.  An additional collection of post cards will be the final element of this project, coming summer of 2010.

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