ALMA GOES TO ENGLAND IN 1910: THE TOUR: ~INTRODUCTION~---the list of tour stops---other links---site navigation
Alma loved to travel, from the beginning until the end of her life. When she was still getting her education, she couldn't afford to travel very far, but then in 1908 she finished her PhD and got an instructor job at Mount Holyoke. In the summer of 1909 she rented a house on Cape Cod, still pretty close to home, but in the summer of 1910 she found a scientific conference in England to attend, and of course planned to go to England several weeks before the conference actually happened.
So this is Alma's first really big travel adventure. It's probably the first time she ever left the United States, unless she had been to Canada for some reason. She went alone - a single woman in 1910. The passenger list for her return voyage suggests that quite a few unattached females crossed the Atlantic, but I can't say for sure.
From documents in the Tour, we learn that Alma took the Canada to England and the Dominion back home. Both were in the White Star-Dominion line. Alma was to leave Montreal on June 18, according to Mama Margaret's letter, and returned on September 19, according to the newspaper item, so she spent over two months in England.
This Tour consists of a letter from Mama Margaret that mentions helping Alma to get ready, then the three letters that Alma wrote to her mother during the trip, and then finally a newspaper item reporting that Alma's return ship had arrived in Montreal. I don't expect to find anything more, but I always hope. Maybe I've missed something, or maybe I'll find something new.
As is standard with the Tours, each stop in the Tour has links to the previous stop and the next stop in the Tour.
So this is Alma's first really big travel adventure. It's probably the first time she ever left the United States, unless she had been to Canada for some reason. She went alone - a single woman in 1910. The passenger list for her return voyage suggests that quite a few unattached females crossed the Atlantic, but I can't say for sure.
From documents in the Tour, we learn that Alma took the Canada to England and the Dominion back home. Both were in the White Star-Dominion line. Alma was to leave Montreal on June 18, according to Mama Margaret's letter, and returned on September 19, according to the newspaper item, so she spent over two months in England.
This Tour consists of a letter from Mama Margaret that mentions helping Alma to get ready, then the three letters that Alma wrote to her mother during the trip, and then finally a newspaper item reporting that Alma's return ship had arrived in Montreal. I don't expect to find anything more, but I always hope. Maybe I've missed something, or maybe I'll find something new.
As is standard with the Tours, each stop in the Tour has links to the previous stop and the next stop in the Tour.
ALMA GOES TO ENGLAND IN 1910: ---introduction---~THE LIST OF TOUR STOPS~---other links---site navigation
- 1910-04-29 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL ----- Alma's getting ready to go to England for the summer.
- 1910-06-20 LETTER FROM ALMA TO MAMA MARGARET ----- On the ship going from Montreal to England.
- 1910-07-08 LETTER FROM ALMA TO MAMA MARGARET ----- Sightseeing in England.
- 1910-09-05 LETTER FROM ALMA TO MAMA MARGARET ----- Unexpected recognition at a British scientific conference.
- 1910-09-20 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA ----- Alma's return ship arrives in Montreal.
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