Lot 1350 , World Tour - the original Manuscript Diary of Mable Dixon accompanying her father Joseph on an extensive tour by steamship, July 1909 - April 1910. Some 264pp. used in a Walker's "Year By Year" Book; publisher's gilt let

° World Tour - the original Manuscript Diary of Mable Dixon accompanying her father Joseph on an extensive tour by steamship, July 1909 - April 1910. Some 264pp. used in a Walker's "Year By Year" Book; publisher's gilt lettered morocco, 8vo. *Joseph Dixon (1849-1926) had relinquished his position as chairman of Peter Dixon & Son, leading newsprint paper makers of Spring Grove Mill, Oughtibridge, near Sheffield; retaining a position on the board of directors he had decided to attend the Seventh Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, being held September 1909 in Sydney (NSW.) The Itinerary (from Tilbury) being Marseilles, Suez Canal, Aden, Colombo; Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Manilla; Shanghai, Canton, Nanking; Lucknow, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Bombay, Delhi, Jaipur. Disembarking for hotel stays at all places listed, the pair visited tourist attractions and other places of interest both nearby and further afield, whilst at the Sydney Congress Joseph contributed to the proceedings, also engaging in business discussions. In later life Mabel (twenty at the time of the tour) looked after her father for some years in Dorset, then lived at Eastbourne and various other Sussex locations - including Scaynes Hill House, near Haywards Heath. Together with the Diary are numerous personal and family letters, documents and photographs etc., contained in her old deed box. Also, a most interesting printed book - The Mabel Trail: the diary of a 1909-1910 world tour, by Roger Dixon (privately published, 2021). A mass of useful information - biographical on the personalities met, and geographical, social, political/historical on the places visited; very many illus. throughout (and useful for identifying some of the old family photos.) Not least the Diary emphasises the 'nouveaux riche' fully embracing the extended leisure afforded them in the heyday of the Edwardian 'golden afternoon'
£300-400

Condition:
Leather worn on spine and inner joints cracked, some pages with only a few lines, many others well-filled and reasonably legible. The printed book v.g. cond., paperback, 4to. printed covers. (4), 289pp., the main text with illus. (some multiple) on almost every page.