| Description | 154pp; comprises extremely detailed and lively descriptions of all places visited and people met and includes much reference to temperance movement. Organised into chapters as follows:
Chapter 1: sick leave while in charge of Palamcotta and district: includes journey from Palamcotta to Ootacamund via Coonoor 1873;
Chapter 2: Voyage home on P & O Steamer 'Mongolia' 1874 (p.11 torn, part missing];
Chapter 3; deputation work Blackheath and Bitterne, Hampshire: visits to Rev. Joseph Fenn and family at Blackheath includes reference to proposed removal of three-decker pulpit from Blackheath Park chapel (bishop refused to consecrate church where pulpit obscured view of communion table); deputation to Rev. H. Usborne, Bitterne, includes reference to sisters Eliza, Harriet and Anna Maria and their interest in Lash's work at the Sarah Tucker Institution including suggestion for similar work in Travancore (later to become Buchanan Institution);
Chapter 4: East London Jul 1874; St. James the Less 13 Jul 1874 including reminiscences of Borough Road Sunday School;
Chapter 5: Swansea and Oxwich, Glamorgan 29 Jul 1874;
Chapter 6: Handley 12 Sep and Walsall 15 Sep 1874: recounts inaccurate tales told by first speaker (Dr. M.) at missionary meeting at Handley Mechanics Institute: 15 Sep meeting at Walsall Temperance Hall: first speaker Jacob Wainwright, Dr. Livingstone's servant (gives notes of speech and account of meetings with him after the missionary meeting); also anecdote relating to Rev. J. B. Owen;
Chapter 7: Shrewsbury 28 Sep 1874: visit to Rev. C. E. L. Wightman, includes much reference to Mrs. Julia Bainbridge Wightman, founder of St. Alkmund's Total Abstinence Society and author of several books;
Chapter 8: Sandwich 7 Oct 1874;
Chapter 9: Ramsgate, Canterbury includes reference to Colonel Horsley; Harwich, Ramsey and Wrabness (Essex); Margate; Reading;
Chapter 10: Chester 6 Nov includes reference to Mr. [J. P.] Gardiner, missionary in Rupert's Land; also note of address by Dean Howson on his experiences as delegate to the Old Catholic Conference at Bonn, also Howson's recollections of Josiah Pratt and Charles Simeon;
Chapter 11: Streatham, 18 Nov 1874: Woowich, 28 Nov includes reference to meeting T. S. Fleming; also relates visit to Woolwich arsenal; Bluntisham (Cambridge) 19 Dec;
Chapter 12: 8 Jan 1875 relates death of Eliza Usborne; 6 Jan, Balham; 23 Jan, Wales (mining town);
Chapter 13: Jan 1875 Liverpool including visit with Rev. R. Bardsley to Bootle (mention of Mr. Clarke Aspinall);
Chapter 14: 8 Feb 1875, Windsor: 17 Mar, Mortlake includes reference to Hon. Sydney Roper Curson, also relates to visit to D. L. Moody meeting; 23 Mar, Chislehurst (including reference to Napoleon III); 7 Apr Hawkhurst, (Kent);
Chapter 15: 16 Apr 1875, Bristol, Clifton, including reference to Temple Church;
Chapter 16 : 17 Apr, Worcester; 24 Apr, Leeds;
Chapter 17: May 1875, Brighton, Rev. James Vaughan; 12 May, Preston;
Chapter 18: 16 and 20 May, Wimbledon; 24 May, Sunderland, Durham including adverse comments relating to architect Gilbert Scott; 2 Jun 1875, Kendal;
Chaper 15 [sic]: 5 Jun Boston, Lincoln; 18 Jun, Old Leake; 19 Jun, Southport; 24 Jun, Birmingham, includes (p.90) brief anecdote relating to William Duncan; 1 Jul took his children to the Zoo (London); 1 Jul Hereford Square, London; 6 Jul Tollington Park, London; 12 Jul Barton le Cley, and Holwell, Shillington (Bedfordshire);
Chapter 17 [sic]: 19 Jul, Edmonton; 23 Jul, Slough annual CMS meeting at Mr. Sydney Gedge's house; 20 [sic] Jul, Pulborough;
Chapter 18 [sic]: Aug, Dorking, Hawkhurst, Southborough; Whileigh Hawkhurst, Kent includes reference to Rev. and Mrs. Brenchley; 1 Sep 1875, Southborough includes reference to Mr. Carr a friend of Rev. John Tucker, and Miss Carr, sister of Judge Carr of Palamcotta; also relates meeting with Miss [C.] Giberne, of Tinnevelly; also relates to Canon Hoare and his son Joseph [later CMS missionary];
Chapter 19: 17 Sep 1875, Newmarket, visit to Rev. Romanie Govett (Lash's eldest daughter was to live there for some years); Wicken; 1 Oct, Ipswich (including two inscriptions at Bury St. Edmunds ?in the churchyard, [Mary Haselton, nine killed by lightning while repeating her vespers; 23 Apr 18 Sarah Lloyd suffered a just but ignominious death for admitting her abandoned seducer into the dwelling house of her master and becoming the instrument in his hands of the crimes of robbery and house burning]); includes reference to Margaret Catchpole; meeting in Council chamber including speech by Mr. Childe, former principal of Islington College; 29 Sep visit to CM College Islington (Barlow principal);
Chapter 20: 4 Oct 1875, Ash next Sandwich; 11 Oct, Wooburn Green (Rev. and Mrs. Ashley) and Loudwater (Buckinghamshire); Dropmore (formerly property of Lord Granville) Mr. Frost, head gardener, showed them the grounds (including 108ft Douglas Pine), includes anecdotes relating to Lady Granville; 12 Oct describes visit to paper mill at Wooburn; 19 Oct, Wingrave includes reference to Miss Hannah Rothchild's improvements (building new cottages, presenting recreation ground, proposed building of school house); Wing; 26 Oct, Aylesbury;
Chapter 21: 4 Nov 1875, Banbury: met by John Gritton formerly of CMS; includes notes of Gritton's speech also relates to work in Pannikullam district, Tinnevelly; 9 Nov, Madeley (Salop) includes reference to Fletcher of Madeley;
Chapter 22: Nov, Isle of Man: stormy crossing; Kirk Andrea; Ramsey; Douglas; Ballasalla; Russun; Ballaff; Kirk Michael (including reference to Bishop Thomas Witson, died 1755 and the "present bishop" [Horatio Powys]; Peel, including anecdotes relating to Bishop Short; visit to lady in Douglas who had been "governess to one of my Indian friends";
Chapter 23: 8 Dec 1875: Rev. Henry Wrights, Hampstead: [house opposite Jack Straw' Castle] |