| Description | Travel diary recording visit to France (Paris and Marseilles) and Italy (Genoa, Leghorn, Civitavecchia and Naples) in the summer of 1859, including initial journey through Britain. Diary records Corrigan's impression of the places he visits and events he witnesses, including the entry of the victorious French army into Paris after the Second War of Italian Independence, the problem of begging in Naples, the continental attitude to mixed bathing and a debate Corrigan had with an English traveller over the situation in Ireland. Several of the entries are accompanied by illustrations.
Entries cover only 86 pages of the volume, with an addition 6 pages of loose notes. |