Comments for The Grand Tour

Comment on Ponting of the Antarctic ***** by Jen '93

Jen '93 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:04:20 +0000

I want her to take another trip around the world. Thanks so much for sharing these!

Comment on Ponting of the Antarctic ***** by Liz '84

Liz '84 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:20:01 +0000

I’ve been so aware the last half dozen letters that she’s traveling through Europe only a few months before the outbreak of WWI. It’s like these letters are recording the end of a way of life; in a few short months, the world will be engulfed in the worst horrors of modernity and everything will change forever. Alice is getting home just in time.

Comment on In his Native Heath he is Doubly Attractive ***** by elizabethmosier

elizabethmosier — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:39 +0000

Love these posts, Linda!

Comment on Pillow Fight by elizabethmosier

elizabethmosier — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:48:58 +0000

What a fascinating — and, I imagine satisfying — project! I’ll return for more!

Comment on A Shell Which Softens the Light Beautifully by gogirlracing

gogirlracing — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:01:07 +0000

Hello, great blog! I’m from the Philippines and am very interested in anything to do with our past history, and also in memoirs/diaries.

The Manila Hotel is still extant but sadly not the most popular hotel in the country anymore.

The place she visited is called “Baguio” (spelled with a G, not a Q), our “summer capital”, built by the Americans during the American Occupation period after the Spanish-American War of 1896.

The “shell which softens the light beautifully” is a creamy colored translucent flat shell called “capiz” and yes, it was used for shutters. It is not as common as it used to be, but one can still see many examples of such in older houses in Manila and in houses in the provinces. Nowadays capiz is made into lanterns, mobiles, colored and inlaid into boxes, plaques, and other handicraft items.

Comment on Mercolized Wax by Pennifer

Pennifer — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:01:46 +0000

I googled mercolized wax – it contains mercury and was quite toxic. Eek!

Comment on Hawaii by Anne ('64) Slater

Anne ('64) Slater — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:20:24 +0000

Alice sounds SO much like my grandmother (1883-1987!)! Gay youth, open to all she is seeing.
Thanks so much for transcribing and posting these letters. I marked my google calendar to remind me to check for the letters each week.
Anne

Comment on Dramatis Personae: Alice Ross, 1890-1980 by Maureen Basedow

Maureen Basedow — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:41:54 +0000

This reminds me of a science fiction story I once read…