JOHN HILDESHEIM’S NOTES
[Translated and annotated by Mark Hill]
[EDUCATION AND EARLY YEARS 1845-64]
[I was] born on April 9, 1845, in Hamburg.
I went to school with Joh[ann] Roeloff, left that [school], under Ro[eloff’s] successor Dr. Friedrich Dörr on March 1, 1859. The same day, I was accepted as a trainee with N.H. Bernhard & Co., Hamburg. I became a clerk On January 1, 1862, with a salary of 500 p[fennig] courant.1
I traveled on June 3, 1862, on a pleasure trip to England through Hartlepool to Manchester, Nottingham, [and] London (Sydenham), for the [Great] Exhibition. Then I traveled back through Nottingham (I visited Matlock), and Hull, to Hamburg. July 1, 1862.
On September 4, 1862, I left Hamburg and joined Dagron & Co. Paris as a clerk, with 150 francs p[er] month. For this [Dagron’s] house, I went on October 21, 1863, to Gex, near Geneva, where I remained until December 31 of the same year.2
From January 1 to May 15, 1864, I stayed in Paris (salary 3000 francs), and traveled then through Cologne to Solingen, and, three days later, to Hamburg for the wedding of my sister Caroline.3
1 The mark courant was currency in use in Hamburg and neighboring cities at that time.
2 Dagron was an early photographer who was known for producing microscopic lenses (the “Stanhope” lens). Dagron's lens factory was located in Gex, Switzerland.
3 Caroline married the banker, author and journalist Gustav Tuch. He advocated for German unification and founded Jewish community organizations. [TRAVEL TO CUBA AND MEXICO 1864-65]
On June 2, 1864, I left Hamburg and traveled through Grimsby to Birmingham, and there, on the 5th, joined in the business of Herr Leopold Cohen with a salary of £120.4 I traveled with A[dolph] C[ohen] in August to Manchester and Liverpool.
On November 2, 1864, I traveled for this house [of Cohen] through Southampton and St. Thomas by [the] Seine and [the] Trent 5 to Havana, where I arrived on November 24. (£50. Everything free.)
From February 1-12, 1865, I visited the following cities of the island Cuba: Matanzas (Caves of Bellamar), Bembu, Cardenas, Sagua, Villaclara, Cienfuegos, [and] Trinidad, and returned through Batabanó to Havana.
I left Havana on February 24 (by [the] Eyder), and on the 28th arrived at Veracruz, where I stayed until March 23, and then, by diligence6 through Paso del Macho, Cordoba, Orizaba, and Pueblo, reached Mexico’s capital city on March 27.
On May 17, 1865, I left Mexico and arrived again on the 28th in Havana ([on the] Walcott via Veracruz and Sisal), where I stayed 3 days. [I went to New York] by [the] Barcelona.7 From June 4th to 10th, I remained in New York and arrived by [the] Baltimore on June 23 in Birmingham through Queenstown and Liverpool.
I visited Nottingham on the 25th. I traveled to Hamburg on the 27th, and went through Grimsby and Manchester on July 18 to Birmingham again. I visited my brother Hermann in Birmingham on August 6, 1865.
4 Brothers Leopold Louis Cohen and Adolph Cohen were uncles of John's wife, Pauline Meyer. Leopold was an export merchant and Adolph a jeweler. Pauline's grandmother Jette "Jessie" (Warburg) Cohen lived in Birmingham with Adolph's family.
5 The Trent, from St. Thomas & Puerto Rico, arrived in Havana on Nov. 26, 1864 (cubagenweb.com).
6 A type of stagecoach.
7 US Immigration records John Hildesheim, 17, arriving on the Havana in New York on June 5, 1865. (Before I started on my trip to Cuba, I visited Nottingham, and received a visit from Julius and Eduard [in] 1864.)
In Havana I met with Hermann on January 9. He stayed one week, then returned through Nassau and the U.S. to Europe.8
On August 12, 1865, I left Birmingham for Paris, I went there together with Papa and Julius.
[1865: EMPLOYMENT BY LIPMAN & CO.]
I left Paris on August 25 and met that evening with Lipman9 and his family as well as Hermann in London. [On the] 26th in Sydenham. [On the] 27th in Richmond and Hampton Court. On the 28th I went to Nottingham. On the 31st, back in Birmingham, I chose from the four offers made to me [by] Lipman & Co. Dundee10 as the one most profitable for me (£250, everything free, ¼ share).
On September 2 in Blairgowrie I met David and his family. I went on the 11th to Belfast, and arrived again on the 18th through Glasgow in Dundee.
October 14 I went to Hamburg via Edinburgh and Leith, [and] returned [on] October 29, 1865, to Dundee.
8 Hermannʼs return trip via the U.S. took place during the American Civil War, when southern ports were blockaded. [The Library of Congress has a manuscript list of Confederate ships arriving and departing Nassau and Bermuda maintained by the US Consul 1861-1865: Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, Van Arsdale Brown Turner, John Clement Fitzpatrick, Emily Burns Mitchell, Gaillard Hunt http://books.google.com/books? id=UIwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA73&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3zvGPh89CvpVK3CHpdTiR1GuXH pA&ci=64%2C613%2C855%2C276&edge=0 ]
9 Isaac Lipman was the brother of Therese Lipman, Johnʼs mother. He was the owner of Lipman & Co., a trading firm that had offices in Dundee and Hamburg and, eventually, Glasgow, Manchester, and Belfast. He was also a partner in the Hamburg firm of Lipman & Wulff.
10 John and his brothers David and Hermann all were employed by, or partners of Isaac Lipmanʼs firm. The firm exported jute products such as burlap bags internationally. David was associated with Lipman & Co. Dundee, John with the Glasgow business, and Hermann with Dundee. In 1892, Lipman & Co., then owned by Isaac Lipmanʼs son Ernest Lipman, Hermann Hildesheim, and Edward Friedländer, failed and litigation ensued. (New York Security and Trust Company v. Ernest Lipman and others, Supreme Court of the State of New York, General Term-First Department Case on Appeal (1895) Google e-book.) [1865-1868: TRAVEL IN SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN]
[BRAZIL 1865-66]
[I went on] November 6 to London, from there on the 8th to Southampton. On the 9th I left Southampton on [the] steamer Douro. On the 12th of November we were in Tajo near Lisbon, on the 16th passed Tenerife, on the 20th, St. Vincent. On the 27th, we arrived at Pernambuco, where I stayed until the 15th of December. The Panana brought me on the 20th to Maranhão, after touching on the Parahiba harbor, Rio Grande do Norte, and Céara. I spent Christmas 1865 on the quinta11 “San Lazaro“ at Maranhão. [On] the 31st of December and New Year's Day I was in Remedio.
On January 12, 1866, I left Maranhão and arrived in Pará. On the 24th, I left Pará, toured Maranhão, Natal, Parahiba, Céara, Pernambuco, [and] Abaceio, and was on February 7 in Bahia (by [the] Tocantino. On [the] 20th, I went by [the] Kepler to Rio, where I arrived on February 24. On March 7, I left Rio by [the] Brasil. On the 10th, I was on Santa Catarina. On the 13th, I arrived in Rio Grande do Sol, then left that place on the Gerente on the 27th.
[URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, CHILE 1866]
On the 28th, I was in Montevideo [until] April 4th. I arrived in Buenos Aires on the Rio Paraná on the 5th. On the 17th, I went on [the] Icihu to Rosario.
On the 18th-24th in Rosario.
“ 24th Arequito [Argentina]
25th 3 Cruces [Tres Cruces, Montevideo, Uruguay]
26th Tortural ([they] danced)
27th Rio Cuarto [Cordoba, Argentina]
11 Ranch. 28th Achiras [Cordoba, Argentina]
29th Rio Quinto [Cordoba, Argentina]
30th Desaguadero [Mendoza, Argentina]
May 1. San Luis [Argentina]
2. Santa Rosa [Mendoza, Argentina]
3. Mendoza [Argentina].
On May 4, 1866, [I started] from M[endoza] to Valparaiso, where I arrived on the 13th through Coquimbito los Andes [Chile] and Llaillay [Chile].
On May 27 by railroad to Santiago (Recoleta), and back [to Valparaiso] on June 1.
PERU 1866
On June 3, 1866, by [the] Limeña through Coquimbo and Caldera, Chile; Cobija, Bolivia; Iquique and Arica [Chile], to Tacna [Peru] on the 9th. On the 18th, to Iquique on the Ecuador, where I arrived on the 19th.
On the 23rd by [the Ecuador] to Pisagua.
On the 27th to Arica and Tacna. On [July] 1st from A[rica] on the Payta to Islay, where I arrived on the 2nd. On the 3rd, to Arequipa by mule. On the 9th, from Islay on the Guayaquil to Callao and Lima,12 where I arrived on the 12th.
[July 27-31] national holiday celebration.
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12 He had a photograph made in Lima. On August 11 I left Lima on the Talca and arrived in Huanchaco on the 14th. On horse through Trujillo (four-day stop), I arrived on the 19th in Facala (Hacienda of Luis Albrecht13); on the 22nd, back in Huanchaco.
Between Lima and H[uanchaco] I saw the various garrisoned harbors of Huasco, Supe, Samanco, Culebras, Santas, etc.; between H[uanchaco] and Paita, where on the 25th I arrived on the Santiago, Pimentel and San José and Pimentel. [Pimentel and San José are both near Huanchaco.]
On August 26 I arrived in Guayaquil on the Favorita, which I left again on September 12. [To] Tumbes on [the] Peruano.
CENTRAL AMERICA
On the 16th, on [the] Limena from Payta to Panama, where I arrived on the 21st, and left Panama on the Parkersburgh on the 25th; and, after touching on the Punta Arrenas harbor (Costa Rica); Realejo and Corinto (Nicaragua); La Union, Libertad and Agajutla (San Salvador), on October 4 arrived in San Jose de Guatemala; [and] at 5:00 in the evening I arrived by diligence14 via Esquintla in the capital city.
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On October 16 I left Guatemala and on October 17 was in San Jose, where I waited until the 21st for the steamer San Salvador, which, [taking] until the 27th of October, brought me to Puntarenas in Costa Rica. On the 28th, I left that place by mule, and arrived, via Esparza [and] San Mateo, on the 30th in San Jose, Costa Rica, which city I left again on November 9 for Puntarenas.
13 Luis Albrecht, a Bavarian immigrant, arrived in Trujillo, Peru in 1855 and in 1862 developed a sugar plantation, the Hacienda Facalá, by restoring a disused canal. He continued acquiring land in the Chicama Valley, including Sausal in 1865 and Casa Grande in 1871. He issued his own currency. He was praised for his agricultural and engineering innovation but later criticized for exploiting and torturing Chinese coolies. http://inmigracionsigloxix.blogspot.com/2009/01/luis-g-albrecht-y-el-nacimiento-de- casa.html
14 A type of stagecoach. After a three-day horseback ride in continuous rain, I left P[untarenas] on the 12th for Panama on [the] Parkersburgh; I arrived there on the 15th.
[COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA AND CARIBBEAN ISLANDS 1866-67]
On November 23, I went by railroad to Colon (Aspinwall15) and from there went on the 25th to Cartagena and St. Martha16 on [the] Danube. On the 29th I left St. M[artha] on [the] Gaira for Baranquilla, which I reached on the 30th.
On December 14, I went back to St. Martha. On the 23rd, by horse to Cienega; I stayed there Christmas.
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On the 28th, by [the] Colombia to Cartagena.
On January 2, 1867, from there on the Danube to Colon, [arriving there on the] 4th. On the 7th on the Moctezuma via Kingston [to] Santiago de Cuba. [From the] 14-17th [I was in] Barracoa; [on the] 18th, Gibarra; [on the] 19th, Nuevitas; [on the] 20th, Havana. On February 8 I went via Batabanó and Cienfuegos on the Villa Clara to Trinidad, [and] was back again on the 13th.
On the 19th, on the Nouveau Monde to Fort de France, Martinique, where I arrived on the 25th and the same day on the Caraibe to La Guayra, [arriving] on the morning of the 28th.17
On March 12 I took myself to Caracas, [and] was on the 16th again in La Guayra. On the 21st on the Mercedita to Puerto Cabello. [Then] on the Filomena to Curacão, where I arrived on the 23rd, and on the 6th sailed to Maracaibo; on the 15th, again in Curacão on the Nueva Clara.
15 A coast-to-coast railroad across Panama built in 1855 by William Henry Aspinwall, founder of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. http://www.panamarailroad.org/aspinwall.html
16 Santa Marta, Colombia.
17 John Hildesheim sailed from Havana on the Nouveau Monde for St. Nazaire on Feb. 20, 1867 per Cubagenweb.com On April 23, on the Robert Todd via Puerto Cabello and La Guayra to St. Thomas,
[page 10] where I arrived on the 29th. On May 15, I went on the Denvent to Peter Island, and from there on the 17th on the Tyne to Colón and Panama on May 24.
CALIFORNIA 1867
On the 29th I went on the Golden City18 via Acapulco to San Francisco, where I arrived on June 12. From June 18-27 [I went on a tour] to Yosemite Valley, on the Cornelia19 to Stockton, by stage [to] Coulterville, then on horse. Back the same way: 122 miles. On July 15, I left San Francisco on the Sierra Nevada and came on the 26th to Mazatlan. From there I went on August 3 on the sailing ship Pacifico to Manzanillo, where I arrived on the 9th and stayed until the 17th. By the Golden Age I was on the 23rd again in San Francisco: an unnecessary trip. A cable dispatch had missed me in
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Manzanillo. (Japan trip.20)
18 SS Golden City: Launched January 24, 1863 for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company she entered the San Francisco to Panama City service on August 13, 1863 and continued this until 1869. She was lost on the coast of Baja California on February 10, 1870. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Mail_Steamship_Company http://www.nytimes.com/1863/08/11/news/trial-trip-of-the-pacific-mail-steamship-golden-city.html
19 On the 28th of June, 1853, Captain Conklin, then master of the Henry T. Clay, went East to superintend the building of a new steamer, which on the 28th of October swung with easy and graceful motion into her berth at Stockton. This beautiful boat was at that time the finest steamer in California and an honor to the young lady whose name she bore, Cornelia, the eldest daughter of Captain E. Conklin. The Cornelia was built in New York, and being fitted with masts sailed around Cape Horn. George H. Tinkham, History of Stockton (San Francisco, 1880) p. 326.
20 In early 1867, Pacific Mail Steamship Company had inaugurated the first regular steamer service to China and Japan with side-wheel wooden ships. One of four new ships built specifically for the China- Japan service, the Great Republic, arrived in San Francisco on August 5, 1867, where it “received a tumultuous welcome.” It departed for Hongkong and Yokohama on September 3. E. Mowbray Tate, Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941 (Associated University Presses, 1986, pp. 23-27.) ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, PERU AND CHILE 1867-68
On the 30th, I went on the Montana via Acapulco to Panama, where I stayed September 12-16. [With stops in the ports of] Buenaventura [and] Tumaco, [Colombia], [and] Esmeraldas and Manta, [Ecuador]21, I arrived on the 24th on the Talca in Guayaquil, [Ecuador]. On October 13, I left G[uayaquil] on the Colon and on the 15th, before [entering] Paita [Peru], I was [placed in] quarantine. On November 2, I was in the so-called “Lazareth.” On the 3rd, [there was a] coup in Payta Province.
On November 6, on the Limeña to Callao, [Peru]. On the 8th, I was in Lima. On the 20th, on the Pacific via Quiloa [and] Islay, to Arica and Tacna, [arriving] on the 23rd. On the 30th, on the Chili to Pisagua [Chile]. On December 4, on the Favorita to Iquique. On the 8th, on the Santiago via Cobija, Mejillones de Bolivia, Caldera, [and] Coquimbo to Valparaiso; I arrived on December 12. On the 17th via Llay-llay to Santiago and I returned on December 21.
On January 3, 1868, I left Valparaiso on the Peru. I stayed in Lima from the 11th-14th and arrived in Panama on January 20. On the 23rd to Colon. On the 27th on the Tyne to Cartagena, and I arrived on the 30th in St. Martha.
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On February 4, I left St. Martha on the Gaira, and was in Baranquilla in the afternoon. On the Canon I went on the 17th from B[aranquilla] back to St. M [ar]tha.
On March 3, through Cartagena [on the] 5th [and] Colon [on the] 7th to Kingston [on the] 11th on the Tyne.
HAITI 1868
On the 12th, on the Bolivar, to Port-au-Prince, [arriving] on the 14th. On the 23rd, through Gressier [and] Massena to Jacmel. On the 29th, back to Port-
21 This route described in Fessenden Nott Otis, Isthmus of Panama, History of the Panama Railroad and of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company (Harper & Brothers, 1867), pp. 219-220. (https://play.google.com/ store/books/details?id=9xMIAAAAQAAJ&rdid=book-9xMIAAAAQAAJ&rdot=1) au-Prince. On April 8, again to Jacmel. On the 10th, on the Atrato to St. Thomas, where I arrived on the 12th.
[BRAZIL, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA 1868]
On the Merrimack on May 1, to Pará, [Brazil], arrived on the 8th. (Prince Philip von Sachsen-Koburg.22) On the Paraná on the 16th to Maranhão. Arrived on the 19th.
Left on the Guana on June 4 via Ceara, Maceiu, Natal, and Paraniba [and] Pernambuco [arriving] on the 15th in Bahia. On the 16th, on the South America to Rio. Arrived on the 19th. On the 21st on the Gerente to Rio Grande Sul. Reached there on June 27. On July 12, on the Guapano to Montevideo. On the 15th, on the James T. Brady
(page 13 ) to Buenos Aires, from where on the 23rd I returned on the same steamer to Montevideo.
[RETURN TO HAMBURG; ENGAGEMENT TO PAULINE MEYER 1868]
On July 26, [1868], on the Panama via Rio de Janeiro ([on the] 31st), Cape St. Vincent (August 12), the Canary Islands (August 16), Lisbon ([August] 19), St. Nazaire ([August] 21st, [to] Liverpool (August 24), where I was embraced by David and Hermann.
[I went by] Pullman [that] evening to Manchester; on the 26th, to Bradford ([where I met] Eduard); and Leeds ([where I visited the] Exhibition); and Nottingham, where I stayed until the 28th; then I went with David through London ([where we met] Leopold Cohen), Dover, Calais, Brussels [and] Cologne to Hamburg, where I arrived on the 31st.
22 The House of Coburg was a German royal family that intermarried with several other European royal families, e.g. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who married Britainʼs Queen Victoria. Descendants of the British Saxe-Coburgs (the name was changed to Windsor in 1917) inherited the familyʼs German estates, while other family members, including Prince Philip von Sachsen-Coburg, inherited lands in Slovakia and Hungary. Philip traveled to Brazil with his brothers in 1868. http:// www.msa.sk/en/expositions/art-and-history/house-of-coburg.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha On September 4, [1868] I became engaged with Pauline Meyer in Gross Borstel.
Thursday, September 24, [I traveled] from Hamburg.
Friday [the] 25th, [I went to] Frankfurt [and] Offenbach.
Saturday the 26th, [I went back to Hamburg].
Sunday, [September] 27, to October 2, [I went to] Paris [to see] Julius.
Friday and Saturday, [October] 3, [I went to] London ([to see] Hermann).
Sunday the 4th, [I visited] Birmingham.
Monday the 5th, and Tuesday the 6th, [I visited] Nottingham.
Wednesday, October 7, [I visited] Dundee. 23
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[ESTABLISHMENT OF LIPMAN & CO. GLASGOW; WEDDING PREPARATIONS 1868-69]
Friday, [October] 26, [1868] to Glasgow. On the 27th, on the Llama to Belfast accompanied by David. Returned to Glasgow on the 29th, on the 30th in Dundee. On November 10, to Glasgow; returned on the 12th. On November 23, to Glasgow to live there. I established a company for Lipman and Co.24 [The terms of the partnership are] a quarter share, £500
23 Immediately after becoming engaged, he appears to be announcing his engagement to family members or introducing Pauline to them. Brothers: Julius in Paris, David in Dundee, Hermann in London; sister Cäcilie in Nottingham; Paulineʼs uncles Adolph and Leopold Cohen and grandmother Jette Cohen in Birmingham. John also had an aunt and perhaps grandparents or other close relatives in the Frankfurt- Offenbach area--his father Siegmund was from the neighboring town of Hanau.
24 John and his brothers David and Hermann all were employed by, or partners of, Lipman & Co., which exported jute products such as burlap bags internationally. David was associated with Lipman & Co. Dundee, John with the Glasgow business, and Hermann with Lipman in Manchester. In 1892, Lipman & Co., then owned by Isaac Lipmanʼs son Ernest Lipman, Hermann Hildesheim, and Edward Friedländer, failed and bankruptcy litigation ensued. (New York Security and Trust Company v. Ernest Lipman, Supreme Court of the State of New York, General Term-First Department Case on Appeal (1895) Google e-book.) guarantee, as well as extension of my share on the recognized business for four months.
[1869]
(1869) M[oritz] Portheim25 and David visited me February 5-7. On February 27, to Dundee; I returned on the 29th [sic]. On March 27, via Leith on the Cumberland to Hamburg, where I arrived on March 31 and joined in the wedding party of my brother Hermann, as well as his marriage with Cäcilie Lipman26 on April 4.
On April 14 I went to Copenhagen via Kiel and Korsör [Denmark], and
(Page 15) arrived again in Hamburg on the 18th. I left Hamburg on the 21st for Paris, [left] P[aris] on the 26th for Amsterdam, [left] A[msterdam] on the 28th for Rotterdam, [left] R[otterdam] on the 29th by steamer to Harwich. Via London to Nottingham on the 30th. On May 1, ([after] luncheon on the bowling green) I went from N[ottingham] to Glasgow, where I arrived on May 2. On July 24, after I had visited David twice in that month, I went to Dundee [again], and made arrangements for my wedding. On August 9, I went on the Warsau to Hamburg [and] arrived there on the 10th. I left Hamburg on the 14th and was on August 16 again in Glasgow. On August 24, to Dundee for Lipman's jubilee celebration.27 On the 25th, back in Glasgow. [I went on a] tour in the Highlands with Henry Davis: Loch Lomond, Loch Katrin, and [the] Trossachs--[then the] Glasgow Fair.28
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25 Moritz Portheim, a German national, was Lipman & Co.ʼs Belfast representative. (Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory, 1870.) He was naturalized in 1874. (Belfast directory, 1880; British National Archives, Naturalization Certificate B226 issued 4 February 1874.)
26 Cäcilie Lipman (b. 1849) Isaac Lipmanʼs daughter, Hermannʼs first cousin.
27 Probably the 25th anniversary of Lipmanʼs business. It was 20 years after dissolution of Lipmanʼs partnership with Ludovick Hamel on May 31, 1849.
28 The Glasgow Fair takes place in the last two weeks of July. [WEDDING AND WEDDING TRIP 1869]
On October 1, [I traveled] via London, Dover and Ostende to Hamburg, where I arrived on the 3rd, and on the 6th celebrated my wedding with Pauline Jeanette Meyer (born July 2, 1848). On the 7th [we were] in Cologne. On October 8, up the Rhine to Mainz. On the 9th, [to] Frankfurt, Offenbach and Wiesbaden. On the 10th, from Mainz through Creuznach and Oberstein to Metz. On the evening of the 11th, we reached Paris [and stayed] until the evening of October 18. On the 18th, we arrived in London via Calais and Dover. On the evening of the 19th, in Birmingham. On the morning of the 21st, in Nottingham. On the evening of the 22nd, in Manchester.29 On October 24th [we arrived at] 51 Renfrew Street, Glasgow.30
On December 3, we proceeded with Alice H[ildesheim]31 to Dundee, and returned on December 6 to Glasgow. Shortly before that, we had a visit from David and Alice [Hildesheim].
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[AROUND GLASGOW; BIRTH OF DAGMAR 1870]
1870. On January 13, we had a visit from David and Susette.32 On March 1, from David and Adolph H[ildesheim].33 [We went to] Alva, Alloa, and Tillicoultry with Juile.[?] On March 28 I went with Pauline to Dundee and we returned on April 1. [We had a] picnic party [with] Portheim [at] Bishopbriggs.
29 This trip with Pauline after the marriage also included stops in cities where Johnʼs family members lived.
30 Johnʼs friend E.B. Fleming owned a shop at 50 Renfrew St. at some time.
31 Davidʼs 7-year-old daughter.
32 Susette (Warburg) Hildesheim, Davidʼs wife.
33 David and Susetteʼs son, age 6. On April 23 we moved [to] No. 1 Hamilton Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow. On May 24-25 we received David’s visit, on the 25th, Pauline [went] to Dundee.
On the 26th, Moritz, [his] wife, and I to Lanark, [to the] Falls of Clyde. On the 27th, [I went] to Dundee [and] returned on the 30th without Pauline. On June 3, to Dundee again [and] on the 6th returned with Pauline.
On July 2 we received [a] visit [from] David and Susette until July 4. On August 29, Susette came and was present on the 30th [at] 8:45 a.m.
[page 18] at the birth of our little daughter, which we named Dagmar and had her entered (registered) in Partick, [at the] City of Glasgow Bank. On Octb. 13, we had [a] visit [from] Julius,34 David also came on Octb. 16th from London ([he was here for the] Streicht affair) and left us again on the 17th. On the 20th, Julius and I [traveled] to Manchester. On the 21st, [we were] there and in Birmingham. [Then we visited the following cities:]
On the 22nd, Kidderminster and Birmingh[am];
On the 23rd, Nottingham;
On the 24-25, Manchester;
On the 26th, Halifax;
On the 27th, Lancaster and Hawick and Galashiels;
On the 28th, again in Glasgow.
On November 4, 1870, I took Lipman’s offer for 1871: (⅓ share, without guarantee). Continuation of agency agreement. No contribution in case of loss.
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34 At this time, Paris (Juliusʼs home) was under siege by the Prussian army. 187135
On January 14-15, I was in Dundee, back in Glasgow on the 16th.
On the 19th, David came, and traveled on the 25th to London. Pauline traveled on May 18 to Hamburg, and returned in the middle of July. I myself went several times to Dundee, David was here a few times.
In mid-July I also visited Rosemount at Blairgowrie and made different short pleasure trips to Arran, Ayr, Stroan, Helensburgh, Luss, Blairmore, etc.
David visited us from October 12 until October 17.
[INVENTION 1871-1872]
On August 20, [I was working on an] invention to produce fresh water from bad water through freezing (I improved [the] splitter). [On] November 30, Dagmar began to walk without help: 15 months old.
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1872
From January 4-9 [1872], I went to London on [the] matter of the invention and discovered on January 8 that through pressure in a sievelike press, one can remove everything--even salt contained in the sea-ice--no matter whether natural sea-ice or artificially produced.
On the 9th, I obtained provisional protection [for my invention] from the British government. On January 26, I went to Manchester, on the 27th to London.
35 On November 29, 1871, John was elected a member of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. (Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 8 (1873) p. 216. (Google eBook) [FRANCE 1872]
[On January] 28, to Paris. On the evening [of the] anniversary of the surrender [of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War], in the theater I gave my small contribution to the payment of the
[page 21] war tribute.36 On [January] 29 I left Paris for Nancy37 on the affair [concerning] J. Salmon et fils.38 I met that [person] on the 30th in the morning. The same evening, [I met] G. Falkenstein in Strassburg. Still on the same night, in a heated coach via Frankfurt, Kassel [and] Hannover to Hamburg, where I arrived on January 31. On February 2, on the steamer Cumberland from Hamburg to Leith. On February 5, back in Glasgow. On February 6, I leased [a] house in Kelvinside Terrace. On April 12, we had a visit from Emma Bauermeister.39
36 The Treaty of Versailles (1871) and the Peace of Frankfurt (1871) settled the terms of the victory of Germany over France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Among the requirements was an indemnity payment by France to Germany of 5 billion francs within three years. A campaign for voluntary public contributions was mounted, but government borrowing succeeded in paying the debt off six months early. Rachel Chrastil, Organizing for War: France, 1870-1914 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press 2010), p. 63. John paid either a small tax or a voluntary contribution on his theater ticket toward payment of the war debt.
37 Following the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian war, citizens (called “optants”) in the formerly French regions of Alsace and Lorraine had to either declare their intention to remain French --and leave the region by October 1, 1872--or become German citizens by October 1, 1873. A number of individuals bearing the common Alsatian name Salmon were required to choose. Many French fled to the city of Nancy, the former capital of Lorraine, which remained a French city. The change in government also caused an economic upheaval. John had connnections to Alsace through his brother Julius, whose wife and son-in-law were from the region, and may have had business relationships in Alsace-Lorraine. See http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/2009/06/les-optants-of-alsacelorraine.html
38 Comptes-rendus des travaux du Congres Agricole Libre de Nancy (Google eBook) Louis Nicolas Grandeau, Librairie agricole de la Maison rustique, Paris 1869 - J. Salmon, Nancy and Salmon fils, Nancy listed as members, p.272.
39 W. Bauermeister and Emma Bauermeister entered Hull from Hamburg in 1841. [BIRTH OF MARTHA; THE LIPMANS; SCOTLAND, HAMBURG, PRAGUE AND VIENNA 1872-1873]
On May 8, a little girl was given to us [at] 10:55 p.m.
[page 22] which we named Martha, and under this name had her registered in Partick [at the] City of Glasgow Bank. On May 25, we moved to West Prince’s Street, and on July 25, to 13 Kelvinside Terrace.
Several times we received visits from David. On August 23 we traveled to Blairgowrie, where Pauline stayed until September 2. I visited Pitlochrie, Dunkeld, and Dalrulzion (Rocking Stone). [We had a] visit from David, Susette, Alice and Adolph [on] October 16. Negotiation about I.S. & Co. Manchester until November 10. In the middle of December 1872, [we had a] visit from Uncle I[saac] Lipman.
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On January 21, 1873, [we had a] visit from Sigismund Hamel and Malvina40. Malvina stayed with us until April 10. We met David and Susette in Bridge of Allan [at the] beginning [of] April.
On April 26, via Leith to Hamburg on the steamer Prague with the whole family, where we arrived on April 28. [The] silver anniversary of the Lipmans41 was celebrated on May 3 in the presence of David, Cäcilie and Sig[ismund], Caroline, Hermann, and Cäcilie Hildesheim.42 Naturally, Pauline and I also.
Monday, May 12, I traveled with David to Berlin. [On May] 13, I arrived in Dresden. [On the] 14th, in Prague. [On the] 15th, we stayed in Prague. [On the] 16th, we reached Vienna [and stayed at the] Hotel Metropole. [On the]
40 Malvina Hamel, the daughter of Cäcilie Hildesheim and Sigismund Hamel.
41 Isaac Lipman and Ida Rothschild, Johnʼs uncle and aunt, were married May 3, 1848.
42 David Hildesheim, Cäcilie (Hildesheim) Hamel and Sigismund Hamel, Caroline (Hildesheim) Tuch [or Caroline Hamel, age 10], Hermann Hildesheim, and Cäcilie (Lipman) Hildesheim. 18th, [we paid a] visit [to the] World Exhibition.43 [On the] 21st, I left Vienna via Salzburg.
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[On the] 22nd and 23rd, in Munich. [On the] 24th, in Leipzig. [On the] 25th, back in Hamburg. I left Hamburg on May 31, and on June 2 was back in Glasgow. On the 5th, I was in Dundee. On the 6th, back in Glasgow. On July 12, Carstairs, where I missed Pauline; however, she [was] probably somewhat delayed in Glasgow and had to arrive with children.
On August 3, [a] visit from Herr M[alta] Wulff.44
[FRANCE AND SPAIN 1873-74]
On December 19 [1873], via London to Paris, [where I stayed] December 20-23. On the 24th, [I went to] Marseilles, [and there visited] Chateau Borély, Chemin de la Corniche, and Chateau d'Eau or Palais Longchamp.45 On the evening of the 24th, to Barcelona on the steamship Vargas. In Barcelona [I stayed at the Hotel] Sans from the 26th-28th. In the morning of the 28th, by the same
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43 http://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/detail/ausstellung/experiment-metropole-1873-wien-und-die- weltausstellung.html
44 Malta Wulff was Isaac Lipmanʼs partner in Lipman & Wulff Hamburg.
45 Historical archiecture in Marseilles. Chemin de la Corniche is a pedestrian walkway on the city wall. Chateau d'eau is the fountain at Palais Longchamp in Marseilles. http://www.marseille.fr/siteculture/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=345
http://www.annalesdelarechercheurbaine.fr/IMG/pdf/Beunard_ARU_85.pdf
[http://www.mp2013.fr/the-region/changing-cities/musee-des-beaux-arts-palais-longchamp/?lang=en st[eame]r to Valencia, (Grao46 [district]), on the morning of the 29th to the morning of the 31st. Evening [I arrived] in Denia on the steamship Sophie Jobson [with] Captain Willis.
1874
January 1 [1874], from Denia to Xabia; on January 3, again back to Denia. That evening direct by the same st[eame]r to Liverpool. I saw Ceuta and Gibraltar Monday evening, January 5, 1874. On the morning of January 12, I was in Liverpool, by evening in Glasgow.
[PARTNERSHIP WITH HEYMANN 1874]
On the 13th, John Heymann arrived in Glasgow, who--according to the agreement reached in Hamburg in May 1873--became my associate from January 1, 1874 on. My one-third share became reduced to three-tenths, and, in case a certain sum is earned in 1874 or 1875, his share will be increased from one-fifth to one-fourth and mine reduced from three-tenths to one-fourth. The remaining agreement is until January 1, 1879.
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[BIRTH OF ALBERT; HIGHLAND TOUR WITH SIEGMUND HILDESHEIM, DAVID AND SUSETTE 1874]
On Thursday April 16, at 4:30 in the afternoon, a healthy boy was given to us whom we named Albert. He is registered in the Maryhill Registrar's office.
On May 28 we received my father’s visit, who stayed with us until Tuesday, June 11. David and Susette visited us in the meantime, and I went on a Highland Tour with them from June 8-10, via Loch Lomond and Arrochar to Inveraray, and back to St. Catherines, Lochgoilhead, and Greenock.
46 [http://www.stay.com/valencia/attractions/22536/el-grau-grao/] On July 3 Heymann and his family arrived here. On July 17-18 my brother Hermann visited us.
[ITALY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, RHINELAND 1874]
On July 24 I traveled on account of the Lügard ***[noln?] silk affair to Italy. On the 25th-26th [I was] with Julius in Paris (via Mont [St.] Denis). [From July]27-31 [I was] in Milan [and saw the] cathedral, arena, Teatro dal Verme, [La] Scala, etc. [From July] 31-August 1 [I went to] Genoa ([through the] Apennines) [and] by steamship to Livorno. [On] August 2 [I went from] Livorno to Florence via Pistoia.
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[From] August 2-4 [I saw] Florence: the Uffizi; Putti [sic; Pitti Palace]; palace of Ristori, Marchesa Gritti [sic];47 Medici Chapel; and Prince Umberto Theater.
[On] August 5, [I visited] Milan, Arona, Lago Maggiore (Isola Bella and Borromeo Palace), Magadino, [and] St. Gotthardt. [On] August 6, [I went through] Hospice, Altdorf, Fluelen, Vierwaldstädter See, Lucerne, [and] Basel. [On] August 7, [I traveled through] Mainz, Rhein, and Cologne to Ostende. On the evening of August 8, I was in Glasgow.
On August 17, a visit from Portheim. On August 21, a visit from David with Adolph, Paul and Siegfried Warburg.48 I definitively gave up the patent in December.
1875
47 A world-famous actress of the time, Adelaide Ristori, the Marchesa Grillo. http://books.google.com/ books?id=Y5tNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=actress+ristori+florence +1874&source=bl&ots=ZFEItJMY8p&sig=M_TIyTGlQ3AkoM42jMS1ZATTI00&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qcIrVKOa A4fjoATEooKADQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=actress%20ristori%20florence %201874&f=false
48 Adolph and Paul Hildesheim are Davidʼs sons. Siegfried Warburg was Davidʼs brother-in-law. In mid-December, Heymann came from the trip, and we went together on the 18th-21st of January to Manchester [regarding a] contract [with] Dick & Sinclair.49
On January 8 [the] G. F. Thomson50 fraud was discovered, that required me to go twice to Edinburgh. Andrew Graham [*** fragment missing] Syne [sic],51 British Linen Co. I saw the latter
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On April 7, [we went] to Dundee and I stayed until the 12th. Pauline and [the] children stayed there [about] two weeks. On May 15, to Hamburg with the entire family. On May 21, alone to Copenhagen, [staying at the] Hotel Phoenix. On May 23, back to Hamburg in order to meet Heymann who came back from Russia. Heymann then went to Copenhagen and from there to Glasgow via Amsterdam. I left Hamburg on May 27-28, arriving in Glasgow on May 31. On the same day, David and Wulff went to Odessa.
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49 A fire extinguisher manufacturer that John Hildesheim represented. http://books.google.com/books? id=YCg- AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA129&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1_Buc6v9KJTAtJtiX6u3RJbyWang&ci=64 %2C40%2C893%2C1199&edge=0
50 George Thomson was agent to the Airdrie branch of the Bank of Scotland. 1875 Edinburgh Postal Directory, p. 638. Died April 30, 1879, Airdrie. The Bankersʼ Magazine, vol. 39, p. 510.
51 James Syme was manager of the British Linen Company Bank. 1875 Edinburgh Postal Directory, p. 635.
52 'Castle and Falcon Hotel - Castle on the Hoop', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british- history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63065 On June 15. I went via London, Brussels--[there was a] railroad accident in Belgium--Cologne, Berlin, and Königsberg to Riga, [where I arrived on] June 19, and [to] Mitau, for [the] Mitau Exhibition.53 I stayed in Riga at the Hotel Stadt London until June 30. [I went on] July 1 [to] Dunaburg, Eydtkuhnen,54 [on] July 2 Berlin, and [in the] late evening [I was in] Borstel, Hamburg, for Pauline's birthday ([there were] seven thunderstorms [between] Berlin [and] Ludwigslust). On July 4, I went to Copenhagen (Tivoli). On July 7, back in Hamburg. On July 11 on the Granton (with Sigismund Hamel and [his daughter] Lieschen to Gravesend, London. On July 13, [from] Gravesend, London [to] Manchester. On July 14, back in Glasgow. On July 17-19, [I went to Moffat] (return ticket) [and stayed] with Clauss.55 On August 7-9, in Troon at Heymann’s. On August 19, [we went] to Leith [to the] Gaiety [Theatre at the] New Ship Hotel. On August 20 Pauline and the children [went] on the steamship Lapland [at] 5 a.m. and back to Glasgow.
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On September 22, [I was] in Belfast [for] demons[trations]
On September 24, [I was in] Dundee, [for] demons[trations]
On October 12, [I went,] via Ostende [and] Rotterdam, to Amsterdam, [where I stayed] from the 14[th]-17[th].
On October 19, back in Glasgow.
53 The General Exhibition of Industrial, Commercial and Agricultural Products took place in Mitau, Russia (now Jelgava, Latvia) in June, 1875.
54 Chernyshevskoye
55 Emil Clauss, a friend and neighbor, resided at 9 Kelvinside Terrace West, Glasgow from 1872-1876. http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/Kelvinside_Terrace_West/9_Kelvinside_Terrace_West.htm. The Hildesheims lived at 13 Kelvinside Terrace South from 1872-1879. Clauss was a merchant and owner of Reichmann & Co., Glasgow. The Glasgow, Greenock, Edinburgh and Leith commercial list (Seyd & Co. 1869). He was also wrote a souvenir pamphlet to promote the panoramic painting by Philipp Fleischer. Emil Clauss, Guide to the Great Scottish National Panorama -- 'Battle of Bannockburn' https:// archive.org/details/guidetogreatscot00clau On November 12-15 Malvina and Lieschen were with us, then traveled to Dundee.
[On] November 22, [I went to a] demonstration [in] Edinburgh.
On November 29, to Bradford.
On December 1, [I was] in London. ([Saw the] Rip van W[inkle] Pullman cars). 56
On December 2, in Manchester.
On the evening of December 2, back in Glasgow.
1876
On January 6-7 [I went to London [and met] with David [and] Dick about Heymann's withdrawal as of June 1. [I stayed at the] De Ragabos Hotel. On the 8th back in Glasgow. On February 1 with Portheim to Dundee. Back on the evening of the 2nd.
On February 16 I obtained Lipman and Wulff's signatures on the circular advertising my appointment as partner. I released the same on February 23.
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[On] February 24 [I received] Heymann's check [for] 147.14.
[On] February 25, Heymann's proxy was revoked.
[On] March 20, birth of a boy, Frank Siegmund, [who we] registered in Maryhill.
On March 30, David came to Glasgow. In the evening, I traveled to London.
On the evening of March 31, [I went] via Ostende to Berlin ([I met] Reichmann [Co.]57 chief Witte), where I arrived on April 2. On April 3, to Hamburg.
56 [luxury sleeping cars The Gilded Age By Joel Shrock]
57 Reichmann & Co. was owned by Emil Clauss. See above. On the evening of the 4th, via Ostende to London, where I met David on the morning of April 6. In the evening, [I went to the] Criterion.58 On the 7th, to Manchester with David [and] we met Hermann and Cäcilie. On the morning of the 8th, back in Glasgow. On May 31, Heymann left the business. David located to Glasgow. On June 1, we moved to Greenside Villa [in] Ayr, and came back to Glasgow on July 31. On August 2, I went on the Cumberland via Leith [to] Hamburg, [arriving] on August 15. In the evening, to Berlin [to meet] Giese [from the] Hoffmark [Company].59 On August 19 [I traveled] with Giese until Vilna.
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[I arrived] on August 21 in Vilna (Falensky).60
On [August] 22 [I was] in Riga (Kohne affair).
On the 24th to St. Petersburg (Bahse).61 From [the] 26th-29th [I was] in Petersburg. On the 27th of August by steamship to Petershof. [There I saw the] palace[s of] Peter the Great, Alexander II and Nikolai Czarevich. On the 29th to Moscow, [staying at the] Hotel Duseaux62 [where I met] Weinstein August 30-31. On September 1 to Odessa, where I arrived on the evening of the 3rd, after a 57-hour trip (Julius Blanck from Nottingham63 ). On September 9, from Odessa to Kiev, (“F”) where I arrived on the 10th and stayed until the 13th, traveling from there to Petersburg ([I met] (“F”)
58 A restaurant and theater in Picadilly Circus.
59 Hoffmark was a cement manufacturer in Estonia.
60 The word “(Falensky)” is in the original following “Wilna.” Either a hotel or the name of an individual.
61 The word “(Bahse)” is in the original following “St. Petersburg.” Either a hotel or the name of an individual.
62 For a description of Hotel Duseaux, see: Mrs. Maria Guthrie, Through Russia: from St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea, Volume 1 (Google eBook) (Hurst, 1874), pp. 161-163.
63 Julius Blanck: Residence, Nottingham. Foreign correspondent. Age 27. Born Peine, Prussia. British Naturalization dated Oct. 7, 1876 (revoked Dec. 7, 1918). Dr. Oscar Lassar64 [in] Schmerinka), where I arrived on September 16,65 [on the] Breslau [and stayed at the] Hotel d'Angleterre until September 22. On September 17, in Giese's company, I visited the Island of Petersburg, the Yacht Club,66 etc. Weinstein [was] sent to Helsingfors [Helsinki]. On September 22, [I went] to Warsaw, where I arrived on the morning of the 24th, [and] remained until the 25th. On the 25th, via Berlin to Hamburg. From September 26-October 3, [I was] in Hamburg.
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On the Cumberland via Leith back on October 6 in Glasgow. On November 16, Dagmar got scarlet fever until the end of the year.
1877. January 1. I traveled to Manchester [and] came back on the 3rd. On January 10, I traveled to Paris [where I visited the firm of] Holthausen & Kintzinger.67
I traveled on January 16 with O. Trapp,68 from Vienna, to London [to meet with] E.J. Reed, M.P., [regarding] mineral tug[s].69 On the 19th, [I was] in Manchester; on the 20th, back in Glasgow. On February 14, to London [for the] Descenseur 70 demonstration on the 16th. On the 17th [I was] in Manchester, on the 18th back. On the 27th, [there was a] Descenseur
64 Lassar was a Hamburg dermatologist who advocated public bathhouses for the poor and developed a treatment for eczema. http://files.sld.cu/dermatologia/files/2011/04/oskar-lassar.pdf
65 Breslau is an interlineation and is probably the name of a ship that took John from Kiev to Petersburg.
66 The first yacht club in St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1716. Later there were several others. Possibly this refers to the St. Petersburg River Yacht Club on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg. http://www.encspb.ru/object/2804016491;jsessionid=B022B321A8AC53B431F84742C88D8F33?lc=en
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neva_Yacht_Club]
67 Developers of a device for lowering people from the upper floors of burning buildings. http:// dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/article/pj224/ar224103
68 An O. Trapp of Vienna registered patents for false teeth and a corkscrew in 1877. The Commissioners of Patents' Journal Great Britain Patent Office (1878) (Google eBook).
69 Edward James Reed was a British naval architect and politician. At this time he was concerned with developing shipping of Welsh ore to England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Reed; The Practical Magazine, No. 19, Volume 4, pp. 1-3 (London, 1874). W.P. Bennett & Co. (Google eBook)
70 Probably the Holthausen & Kintzinger apparatus. demonstration in Glasgow. On March 17 to Belfast ([regarding] Bleaching Powder); [I came] back on the 19th. On April 11, to Manchester (Lipmans) and back on April 14.
On July 5, via Galashiel and Carlisle to London, [arriving] on the 6th. ([There I saw an exhibition of] Psycho and Zoe.71) On July 7, via Queensborough and Vliehsingen to Brussels. On the 8th, 9th, [and] 10th, [I was] in Brussels [and met with] [M.] Descamps-Marousé72 [and stayed at the] Hotel de Saxe. On the evening of the 10th, via Ostende to Dover. On the 11th, [I was] in Dover; [however, my] baggage was left behind. The morning of the 12th, [I was] in Glasgow, that evening in Dunblane, [where I saw] Henry Meyer. On the 17th, [I went] from Dunblane. In the evening, from Glasgow via London [to] Paris, where I arrived on the 18th and stayed until the 27th. On the evening of the 27th, [I was] in Rheims. On the morning of the 28th, via Dinant to
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Brussels, where I arrived on the evening of the 28th. On the 30th, to Malines73 with Schutz. That evening, to Düsseldorf; on the morning of July 31, to Elberfeld; in the evening, to Berlin, where on August 1, I arrived [at
71 Psycho and Zoe were the names of two “automata”, or robotic mannequins, that were built and exhibited by John Nevil Maskelyne in 1875 and 1877, respectively. Psycho was a turban-wearing male mannequin that played whist, while Zoe had the appearance of an English girl, and drew pictures at an easel. http://cyberneticzoo.com/not-quite-robots/1875-psycho-the-whist-playing-automaton-maskelyne- clarke-british/
72 A patent for refrigerant cylinders was granted in 1872 to Sieur Descamps-Marousé of Schaerbeek. Bulletin of the Musée de l'industrie de Belgique Volume 63, (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie. 1873) p. 116. (Google eBook)
73 Mechelen, Belgium. the Hotel] Kaiserhof.74 On the 2nd in the evening, to Hamburg. On the 3rd in the morning, [I was] in Hamburg [and remained there until the] 10th. On the 10th, [I left] for Copenhagen [and] on the 11th [was] in Copenhagen. On the morning of the 12th, to Malmö-Stockholm. On the 13th [I was] in Stockholm [at the] Hotel Rydberg until the 20th. On the 20th to Christiania, where I arrived on the 21st, [stayed] at the Hotel Victoria, [and] remained [in Christiania] until the 24th. On the 24th, [I left] on the steamship Hero. On the morning of the 25th, [I was] in Christiansand, on the evening of the 26th, on the Humber. Early on the 27th, [I went] from Hull via York, [where I saw the] cathedral and castle; [and] Newcastle, [where I saw] Durham Castle. On the evening of August 27, I was in Glasgow. Anker, Widrich. On December 15, a healthy son was given to us, whom we named James, and registered in Maryhill with John Russell.75
1878. In January, Schölles's little Ella died. On February 13, David and Susette were with us. On February 14 [at] Wemyss Bay I rented Rosebank, Upper Skelmorlie. On April 4th, I traveled [to] Manchester [and] lived at Herman [***] house. On the 5th to
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London [Frölich]76; in the evening, via Ostende to Brussels, [where I again met M.] Descamps-Marousé. [I saw two plays:] “Le Petit Duc”77
74 Hotel Kaiserhof was a luxury hotel in Wilhelmplatz, Berlin, Germany. It opened in October 1875. It was located next to the Reich Chancellery in what was at the time the city's "government quarter". Berlin's first "grand hotel." A few days after the opening ceremony in October 1875 the building was destroyed by fire. It reopened in 1876. The Kaiserhof offered more than 260 rooms which were fitted out in a modern and luxurious manner. It was the first Berlin hotel in which every room had an electricity supply, its own bathroom and its own telephone. The hotel also featured steam heating, pneumatic elevators/lifts. The kitchens used gas cookers. Electric power came from Berlin's second power station, recently built in Mauerstraße by Siemens & Halske. It was destroyed in World War II. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Hotel_Kaiserhof_%28Berlin%29) http://www.potsdamer-platz.org/kaiserhof.htm
75 The name of the registrar.
76 The word “Frölich” is interlineated after “London.” Meaning unknown.
77 Le Petit Duc (The little duke) is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Lecocq. The opera was first presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris, on 25 January 1878 and revived there in the 1879, 1881 and 1883 seasons with Granier. Its popularity was such that 1878 also saw premieres in London, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Madrid, Turin and Budapest. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_petit_duc [and ]“Bourgeois de Pont Arcy.”78 [I stayed in Brussels] until the evening of the 8th. On the evening of April 9, [my] birthday, I arrived at Victoria Hotel, Hamburg and visited my parents. On Tuesday the 16th at night I left Hamburg for Berlin. On the 18th, [I left] Berlin for Goerlitz. On the 19th, [I left] G[oerlitz] for Reichenberg. On the 20th, [I left] R[eichenberg] by way of Parduvitz, Freibau, and Olmitz. Easter morning the 21st, [I was] in Olmitz, [then went] by train to Pohl, from there by carriage via Meseritz to Wsetin, Moravian Wallachia, [to the] J&J Kohn [furniture factory79]. On the morning of the 22nd, [I went] from Wsetin by carriage back to Pohl (about 5 hours), then by train via Oderberg, Breslau, [and] Görlitz to Leipzig. [I left] Leipzig on the 23rd via Thüringen [and was] in Fulda by night.
In Offenbach [I] didn't meet my aunt.80 I visited Frau Schölles.
On the morning of the 24th, [I arrived] in Frankfurt-am-Main, [and by] evening, in Mannheim. On the 25th, away from Mannheim, [and by] evening [I was] in Munich. On the 26th, away from Munich, [and by] evening [I was] in Lindau. On the 27th, away from Lindau via Bodensee,
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Romanshorn, [and] Zürich to Basel. [A] two-hour stop, then [in] Mulhouse one hour, then further to Paris, where on the 28th in the morning, I reached [the] Exhibition. On May 1, I joined in the opening.81 In the evening [I saw]
78 A play by Victorien Sardou. Jerome Alfred Hart, Sardou and the Sardou Plays (1913, J.B.Lippincott) (Google eBook)
79 Jacob and Josef Kohn and their descendents influenced classic furniture design from the jugendstil and wiener werstatte styles. The Kohn family firm was founded in 1850, as a producer of lumber. Jacob Kohn went into partnership with his son Josef (1814-1884) in 1867. J&J Kohn is most famous for their chairs including rocking chairs. Their factory in Wsetin, Moravia (Vsetin, Czechoslovakia) was built toward the end of 1869. J&J Kohn were associated with renowned architects and designers from the turn of the century onward. http://www.antiquitiesweb.com/designers/j-j-kohn
80 This aunt may have been his fatherʼs sister. His father was born in Hanau, near Offenbach-am-Main.
81 Lipman & Co. Glasgow exhibited fire extinguishers at the exhibition. Official Catalogue of the British Section, Volume 1 By Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition (1878), p. 269. http://books.google.com/books? id=DEQ1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=LIPMAN &f=false "Les Fourchambault"82 at the Theatre Francais. [I met] Herr Theodor Pontzen from Vienna. On May 3 in the evening [I went] away from Paris; on the morning of the 4th, [I was] in London; in the afternoon, in Nottingham. On the morning of the 5th, [I was] in Glasgow. During my absence, Olga from Dundee [was] with with us in Glasgow.
We spent June and July in Skelmorlie [at] Rosebank by Wemyss Bay. [We had a] visit from Henry Meyer83 and [his] wife from New York [with] David and Susette. The latter [David and Susette] then soon after that moved to London.
1879
On January 8, I traveled to London, where I spent the the 9th and 10th with David at Balgay Lodge, 22 Carlton Road, Putney. On the 11th I was in Nottingham with
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Cäcilie, and on the evening of the 12th, in Manchester with Hermann. Malvina and Elise84 became engaged [with Frederick William] Rothera and Willie Clark [respectively]. On the 13th, [I left] from Manchester [and] on the evening of the 13th [was] back in Glasgow. In February, David visited us--all of our children and Pauline had measles. [At the] beginning of
82 A play by Emile Augier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Augier
83 Henry Coddington Meyer (1844-1935) and his wife Gertrude seem to have been the visitors. Meyer was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of a Danish Jew, Meyer H. Meyer, who emigrated to the U.S. and settled at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester, New York. He was probably a cousin of Johnʼs wife Pauline Meyer. Meyer served in the Civil War as Captain and commander of Company D, 24th New York Volunteer Cavalry. In 1899, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery at Petersburg, Virginia on June 17, 1864. His citation reads: "During an assault and in the face of a heavy fire rendered heroic assistance to a wounded and helpless officer, thereby saving his life and in the performance of this gallant act sustained a severe wound.” Meyer published a memoir entitled Civil War Experiences in 1911.
84 Malvina and Elise Hamel, Cäcilieʼs daughters. March, G.H. Procter85 and his wife née Pauline Meyer from Cincinnati [visited us]. [At the] beginning of February, our friend Leopold Wollheim, manager of S.L. Behrens & Co. Glasgow, died. On April 7th, I traveled to London and was there on the 8th-9th [to arrange the] contracts [with] W.B. Dick and W.B. Dick & Sinclair.86 On the morning of the 10th, [I was] back in Glasgow. On the 8th, I saw David's children. However, I didn't go in the house because my children all had chickenpox at the time. I toured Collander and Loch Lomond with Portheim. ([In April], Therese Hamel87 became engaged to Herbert Rothera.) In May we moved [to] Linden, Minard Road, Partickhill. In June, David came; in July, Hermann; in October, [the] Friedländers88 from Dundee [and] also Martin Lipman visited us. On December 3, Therese Jeanette [was] born [and] registered in Partick. In November, Hermann Heynsen Martiensen was in Manchester.
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On January 1, I took over the business Lipman & Co. Glasgow as successor on [my] own account. 1879 counted already for me alone. In June and July,
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85 George H. Procter was a member of the Procter family that owned Procter & Gamble. His wife, Pauline Meyer Procter (1848-1917) was sister to Henry C. Meyer, a Civil War veteran and author from New York. The name “Henry Meyer from New York” is mentioned elsewhere in the diary. Pauline Meyerʼs headstone says she was the daughter of Meyer H. Meyer and Ann Maria Meyer.
86 Fire extinguisher manufacturers for whom John acted as sales agent.
87 Cäcilieʼs daughter.
88 Edward Friedländer, a Hamburg native born in 1848, was a managing clerk in Lipman & Co. Dundee in 1872, when he became a naturalized British citizen. By 1892, he had become a partner in the firm. (New York Security & Trust Co. v. Ernest Lipman (1895) Supreme Court of the State of New York, General Term-First Department Case on Appeal (Google e-books).) He married Mary Jane L. Perchard in 1872. (British Marriage Index 1872). we occupied Craigielee [at] Blairmore-Strone.89 David's Alice [and] Mrs. Friedländer visited us there. ([We saw] Dr. Spurgeon [at] Benmore90 [and went on a] foot tour to Strathur.) In August we received a visit from Ernst Lipman.91 On November 18, I traveled on the Berlin to Hamburg. On November 26 on the Penguin to London, where on the 28th I met David and Hermann. (Flanagan) On the evening of the 29th, [I was] in Nottingham [and saw] Cäcilie, Malvina, and [her] baby.92 On the morning of the 30th [I was] in Glasgow.
1881
On May 28, with the whole family to Hamburg via Leith. Around the middle of June, through London to Birmingham, [where I arrived] on the 16th. [In] Nottingham on the evening of the 16th. On the 17th, Cäcilie's silver wedding anniversary [was celebrated] at the same time as Therese Hamel's marriage with Herbert Rothera. Malvina and [her] husband had already traveled away to Canada. On the evening of the 18th, back to Glasgow. I lived together with Schmidt at Mrs. Hofmann's.93 I went on a tour with [Emil] Clauss to Linlithgow. (Martin Lipman [was there.])
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89 Their vacation villa, Craigielee, built in 1840, still exists, is a "category B" listed building in Strone. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-50446-strone-shore-road-craigielee-including-fo
90 The well-known Baptist clergyman Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached frequently in Glasgow and also on the lawn of Benmore, the estate of his friend James Duncan near Strone. “Spurgeon in Scotland,” Monthly Record of the Free Church of Scotland, August 1958. http://www.gospeltidings.org.uk/library/ 13/1/3.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon
91 Son of Isaac and Ida Lipman.
92 Malvinaʼs son, Arthur Cecil H. Rothera, was born in 1880.
93 Possibly Margaret (Mrs. Peter) Hofmann, 8 Great Kelvin Terrace, Bank Street, Hillhead, Glasgow. [I went to the] Glasgow fair. [I went on a] tour with Karl Kiep94 to Oban, Iona, and Staffa. [I went on a] tour to Greenock via Ardrossan [and] Skelmorlie. [I went on a] tour with Rottenburg,95 to Loch Earn and Crieff.
About the middle of August to Hamburg via Leith, got the family, and entered Glasgow again on September 1.
[October 13, 1881] Polterabend of Joh[ann] Kiep and C[harlotte] Rottenburg.96
On December 2 [I traveled] via London and Flushing to Hamburg. On December 8, [I attended the] golden polterabend party of my parents at the Lipmans', [and on] December 11 [their] golden wedding anniversary
94 A member of the wealthy and influential Kiep family. Johann Carl Kiep (ca. 1842-Feb. 24 1903 - National Probate Calendar) was a Hamburg timber merchant residing in Glasgow near John Hildesheim at Kelvinside Terrace. His brother, German Imperial Consul Johann Nikolaus Kiep, also lived in Glasgow. Stefan Manz, Constructing a German Diaspora: The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914 (Routledge, 2014).
95 Paul Rottenburg was a German expatriate chemical merchant living in Glasgow. Son of Franz Rottenburg, he was born in 1846 at Danzig and educated at the Royal College there.
He moved to Glasgow in the 1860s and went on to become one of the wealthiest citizens in Britainʼs “Second City.” He served as president of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1896 and 1897 (http:// www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=187 )
He became a naturalised Briton. He was President of the Civic Society, Vice-President of the Philosophical Society and of the Marine Biological Association, Chairman of the Glasgow Branch of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and an Associate of the Society of musicians. In 1901 Glasgow University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He was Conservative in politics, found recreation in cycling and walking, and travelled over most quarters of the globe. He had three sons and two daughters. In 1906 he purchased the estate of Dalnair, near Drymen. (http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/ 1909_Glasgow_Men/Index_of_1909_Glasgow_Men.htm)
Rottenburg, Simonis, and Johann Nicolaus Kiep, three of Johnʼs acquaintances, enrolled in a German literature class at the University of Glasgow in 1890. (https://uoginternationalstory.wordpress.com/ 2014/07/15/the-german-class-of-1890/)
96 Johann N. Kiep and Charlotte J. “Lollo” Rottenburg married October 15, 1881. She was the sister of Paul Rottenburg. Scottish census, 1881. dinner at Pfordte.97 On the 14th, via Hull back to Glasgow, where on the evening of December 16, I arrived.
1882
[In] March David and Susette visited. In July we lived in Avonholm at Blairmore-Strone. On August 1, we had a visit from Cäcilie and Sigismund. Cäcilie stayed until August 15 with us in Linden. ([We went on a] bowling excursion and [to] Glen Rosa98 on Arran.)
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[I went to] Loch Striven with Schneider. [I went to] Whistlefield and Ardentinny with Moir99 and Moller. [I went to] Kilcreggan and Coulport via Rosneath with Schmidt.
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[In] January a visit from Friedländer and David.
[In] February [I went] twice to Kinkaldy [and] the second time from there to Dundee, Aberdeen, and Perth.
[On] March 12, to Manchester
[March] 12 to Nottingham;
March 14, to Birmingham.
97 Acknowledged as one of the best European restaurants at the time: “Hardly any important public dinner is held at Hamburg which does not take place at Pfordte's. The cuisine is perfect. The menus are original, the wines are of the best.” Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis and Algernon Bastard, The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (London, 1903 Grant Richards) (Project Gutenberg e-book https://archive.org/stream/ thegourmetsguide18854gut/18854.txt)
98 A park on the island of Arran. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Rosa
99 Probably James or Frederick Moir of Glasgow. (1861 Scottish census) [In] Putney, London. [On March 15, there was an] explosion [in a] government building.100
[On March] 16, via Ostende to Brussels. [The ship had the] Lebacq Bed.101
[I traveled through Europe, visiting the following cities:]
[March] 19 Antwerp and Hoboken.
[March[ 20 Rotterdam, the Hague, [and] Scheveningen.
[March] 21 Amsterdam.
[March] 21-22 Münster.
[March] 22-23 Elberfeld.
[March] 23-24 Frankfurt-Offenbach.
[March] 24-25 Munich via Innsbruck, Pusterthal, Villach, [and the] Ossiacher See.
[March] 26-27 Trieste.
[March] 29 Pest [and the] Platten See. [The same day, the] death [murder of] Georg von Mailath [there].102
[March] 30-31 Vienna.
April 1 Prague.
100 Between 1881 and 1885 the Irish Republican Brotherhood, known as Fenians, carried out a Dynamite campaign in London, what has been called the first incidence of modern terrorist warfare. On March 15, 1883, there were bomb attacks at Whitehall and the London Times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fenian_dynamite_campaign; http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/602/the-fenian-dynamite-campaign- and-the-irish-american-impetus-for-dynamite-terror-1881-1885.
101 A bed or hammock designed by the inventor Francois Lebacq to neutralize a shipʼs motion and prevent sea-sickness. https://www.google.com/patents/US282649?dq=ininventor:%22Francois+Lebacq %22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QQc8VMPqDoKvogT-14D4Dg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA
102 A prominent Hungarian politician, judge and speaker of the Hungarian parliament, Mailath was murdered during a robbery on May 15, 1883. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Majl %C3%A1th_%281818%E2%80%931883%29 [April] 1-2 Reichenberg
[April] 2 Leipzig
[April] 2-3 Berlin
[April] 3-4 Braunschweig
[April] 4-9 Hamburg
On the 12th, back in Glasgow. [We had a] visit [from] Friedländer's wife.
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We spent June 28-August 29 at Whinmount,103 in Crieff. [We had a] visit [from] Helene Tuch104 and Isabella Binning. [We visited] Small Glen, Trinity College, Loch Turret, Muthill105 etc. etc.
[On] November 5, to London (Hellemans).106
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Visit from David.
March 12-13 to London.
[March] 14-23 in Brussels, Verviers, Charleroi, [and] Marchienne-au-Pont.
103 A house in Crieff.
104 Helene Tuch (1867-1932) was the daughter of Gustav Tuch and Caroline Hildesheim.
105 Locations in Perthshire, Scotland. The Smaʼ Glen is a scenic glen in central Perthshire, located 5 miles (8 km) to the north of Crieff. The fast flowing River Almond runs along the narrow valley floor and the glen itself, is rather small, at only 4 miles (6.5 km) in length. The Romans built a fort and watchtower here, General Wade built a military road here in the 18th century and the glen featured in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. http://www.visitscotland.com/en-us/info/towns-villages/sma-glen-p254371
Trinity College: A boarding school founded by William Gladstone in 1847, now known as Glenalmond College. http://www.glenalmondcollege.co.uk/AboutGlenalmond/History/SchoolHistory.aspx
Loch Turret: A reservoir. http://www.outdoorscotland.co.uk/perthshire_loch_turret.htm
Muthill: A village in Perthshire. http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/muthill/muthill/
106 The name “(Hellemans)” appears here in the original. On the evening of [March] 23, [I was in] Lille [for] Weinstein['s]107 masquerade ball. [On March] 24, [I went to] Wasquehal [and] Arras. [From March] 25-28, [I was in] Paris, [visiting] Julius and Eduard.
[On March] 29, I went to London [and] Nottingham, [where] Sigismund [was] sick. In the morning of [March] 30, back in Glasgow.
[On] April 4, my uncle Isaac Lipman died in Hamburg.
[On] May 19, we moved to 18 Westbourne Terrace.
[On] June 25, to Hamburg on the Coblenz with the whole family.
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[On] July 21, I [went] back to Glasgow alone on the Breslau. [I stayed in] Buckingham T[errace] with Mrs. Clark [at the] Simonis home until August 25. On September 5, I fetched the whole family from Leith.
[On] September 27, to Dundee [to see] Friedländer and Adolph108 [and] back in the evening. [In] October, to Manchester and Waterfoot two times, (once with Friedländer), [to call on] Mitchell Brothers109 and Hermann and Cäcilie.110
[In] November, with Marval to Dundee [to the] Line Throwing Gun Company.111 At the beginning of November, we had a visit from Adolph Hildesheim. [At the] beginning of October, [we had a] visit from Leopold Cohen.112 [Also in] October, with E. Fleming to Dollar, Castle Campbell,
107 Lille was the center of the French textile industry. Like many of Johnʼs contacts, Weinstein may have been a mill owner or executive.
108 David Hildesheimʼs son.
109 Felt and woolen manufacturers in Waterfoot, Lancashire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_ %28Lancashire_politician%29
110 Hermannʼs wife, Cäcilie Lipman Hildesheim.
111 An ocean rescue device. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_gun). In August, 1884, the Line Throwing Gun Company, Ltd. of Dundee staged a demonstration of its device in Berwick. Reported in the Dundee Courier - Dundee, Angus, Scotland August 26, 1884.
112 Jette Cohenʼs son (with whom she had been living) and Paulineʼs uncle. Glendevon and Rumbling Bridge.113 On August 20, Pauline's grandmother Jette Cohen died in Birmingham.
1885
[We had a] visit from Jessie Cohen114 on February 12 [to the] beginning of March.
On February 22, my dear mother Therese Hildesheim (née Lipman) died. On the 23rd, I traveled via Ostende to Hamburg, where I arrived just in time in order to be able to participate in the burial on February 25 [at ] Ohlsdorf [cemetery]. David and Hermann were present. On February 26-27, [I was] in Berlin. [With] Schadewitz and his wife at the table d’hote in the Hotel de Rome, [we saw the] Kaiser, Windhorst, Privy Councillor Wagner, Schorlemer-Alst, and Lüderitz.115
113 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumbling_Bridge
114 Jessie Cohen (b. about 1863) was Adolph Cohenʼs daughter.
115 These names are associated with German imperial politics. Kaiser refers to Kaiser Wilhelm I.
The General Act of Berlin was signed on February 26, 1885, partitioning Central Africa among the European colonial powers and reserving the Congo as a sort of free zone administered by Belgium. It settled what have become the modern boundaries of most of the Central African states. The treaty came at the end of a six-month conference on Africa that wound up on February 27, 1885.
Thus John was present in Berlin during the last two days of the conference and was possibly looking for marketing opportunities.
Windhorst is Ludwig Windhorst, leader of the Catholic Center Party in parliament.
Privy Councillor Wagner was Adolph Wagner, an economist, German nationalist, and Christian Social Party leader who by 1881 had become associated with the antisemitic Berlin Movement. (http:// de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Wagner_%28%C3%96konom%29)
Baron von Schalemer-Alst was an influential Catholic and member of Wilhelm's entourage.
Lüderitz was Franz Adolph Eduard Lüderitz (1834-1886), a Bremen merchant who in 1884 purchased land in southwest Africa which he placed under German protection. Later in 1885, he drowned while exploring in Africa. (http://www.orusovo.com/guidebook/content12.htm).
We have no information about the Schadewitzes.
The original Hotel de Rome was at 39 Unter den Linden, Berlin (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Category:Berlin_in_the_1880s.) On February 28, [I was in] Münster; that evening, in Brussels, [where I met] Dr. Arnim. On March 1-3, [I was in the] Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam. [The ] Empress of Austria [was there with] Dr. Metzger.116
On March 7, [I was in] IJmuiden [for a] yarn test [with] van der Elst.
On March 8, [I was] in London and Putney at David’s.
On March 9, in Nottingham.
On March 10, in the morning, back in Glasgow. [We had a] visit from David.
On April 3, [I went on a] tour with Fleming117 [to] Lennoxtown, Fintry, Balfron, Drymen, [and] back via Balloch. On April 4, [we were] with [the] 5 children in Milngavie. In June [I went on an] excursion with [the] whole family to the Whangie.118 [We went] with Schneider and his children to Torrance [and saw the] Antonine Wall,119 etc. [At the] beginning of August, [we went to] Portobello120 [and were there to the] end of August. [We went on outings] to Dalkeith, the Esk Valley, Roslin, etc., Dalmeny, Queensferry, Aberdour, Duddingston, etc., to Peebles via Musselburgh and Prestonpans. [We had a] visit [from] Olga and Paul121 [at the] end of September.
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116 Empress Elizabeth of Austria, said to be “frequently in Amsterdam for the massage treatments of the famous Dr. Metzger.” Clara Tschudi, Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (Dutton, New York 1901).
117 Ebenezer B. Fleming was a commission merchant with offices at 185 George Street in Glasgow.
118 A rock formation in the Kilpatrick Hills in central Scotland. The Whangie consists of a slice of the hillside that has been separated from the main slope. This has created a narrow chasm up to 10 metres (33 ft) high and about 100 metres (330 ft) in length through which visitors can walk. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilpatrick_Hills
119 Ruins of a Roman fortification begun in 142 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall
120 A beach resort near Edinburgh.
121 Two of Davidʼs children. On January 6, Julius arrived here with his son John. Julius stayed until the 9th, and left John with me in the business. About the end of January [we had a] visit from David when he traveled to Dundee; on his trip back, he came again through Glasgow, and I saw him [for a] short time in the Central Hotel.
Dagmar received a patent for surprise cards in January.
[On] February 15, completion of the Time Check.
[On] February 4, [I was] appointed manager of the Paper Company.
[At the] end of February [I was] in Monifeith [for a] gun trial and [in] Dundee [to see] Friedländer.
[We had a] visit from Hermann.
May 6 [was the] opening [of the] Edinburgh Exhibition.122 In the evening, [we saw a] performance of "The Squire ([followed by the after-piece “The] Uncle’s Romance”) at Mr. Norie's [theater].123
[In] June, [I went] with Pauline to Gartmore and Aberfoyle.
July. Meeting with Cäcilie in London. Then with Hermann and David in Nottingham.
[I paid a] visit at Adolph Cohen’s [in] Birmingham. My family [remained] in Gartmore, for 3 more Sundays. [I went on a] tour from Stirling through Buchlivie to Gartmore.
122 http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/lost-edinburgh-edinburgh-international- exhibition-1886-1-2895307
123 Ada Rehan (1859-1916), a popular Irish-American actress of the time, toured Europe, including Edinburgh, in 1886, in the Augustin Daly acting company. In their repertory, “The Squire” by Arthur Wing Pinero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Rehan; Walter Browne, Fredrick Arnold Austin, Who's who on the stage; the dramatic reference book and biographic al dictionary of the theatre (W. Browne & F. A. Austin, 1906) pp. 183-185. (Google eBook) “The Uncleʼs Romance” was probably a “curtain-raiser” or an “after- piece,” i.e., a second short play before or after the main performance. http://biography.yourdictionary.com/ arthur-wing-pinero [I went on a] tricycle tour with Rottenburg [from] Dunblane [to] Greenloaning.124
[In] September [and] October [I was at the] Holborn Viaduct Hotel and at David’s twice in London, [and] again in Birmingham.
I traveled to Paris, ([where I] saw Eduard for the last time), and [to] Hamburg.
Back through London.
[From] October 9-10, [I was] in Manchester at Hermann’s.
[On] October 11, back in Glasgow.
On November 27, to Manchester, [where I stayed at the] Grosvenor Hotel.
[On] Sunday, November 28, [I was] at Hermann’s.
[On] Tuesday, November 30, to London.
[I left on] Thursday, December 2, via Flushing125 [for] Magdeburg, [where I arrived on December] 3.
[I went on December] 4 [to] Buckau, [where I visited] Schäffer & Budenberg.126
[On December] 5, [my] arrival in Hamburg. Death of Emil Frankfurter.
[On December] 7, [the] arrival of Hermann.
[On December] 8-9, [I made an] arrangement [with] Krap.
[On December] 10, [I left] on the Breslau via Leith.
[On December] 13, back in Glasgow.
124 About 12 miles.
125 Vlissingen, a seaport in the Netherlands.
126 Schäffer & Budenberg, a Buckau-Magdeburg gauge company, established a factory in Manchester about 1875. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budenberg_Gauge_Company) 1887
February 12, [I left for Hamburg] via Leith on the Breslau.
February 14, to Hamburg.
February 15, E. Böttger started.
[At the] beginning of May, [I went] on the Breslau to Glasgow in order to get my family. I traveled from there May 21 and we arrived in Hamburg May 23 on the Prague.
Eduard’s death [at the beginning of May].
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September 26, [I sailed] on the Coblenz to Glasgow.
On October 7, I came back to Hamburg on the Prague.
[At the] beginning of the year, Julius visited Hamburg.
Hermann came several times.
In December, David was in H[am]b[ur]g.
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May. [we had a] visit from E.B. Fleming
August. [I reached a] settlement [with] Steiner.
August 11. [the] separation of E. Böttger. W. Krap was restored. “F”127
August 18. [I took a] trip to Paris [to visit] Eduard’s grave.
[I visited ]L’Etrange & Cie.128
127 The letter F appears at seemingly random intervals, suggesting a coded event or episode of a personal or health-related nature.
128 Tube and pipe suppliers, listed in 1884 Paris directory. [In] Saint-Denis [I met] Blanche's husband, Albert Szoboszlay.129
[After traveling through Aachen, Cologne, and Bremen, on] August 25, [I was] back in Hamburg.
September. Wilhelm Muthig Liepermann died.
September 19. Mrs. Rothschild died.130
“F” [From] July-August 17, Dagmar and Martha [were] in Copenhagen at the Abrahams’.
October. [We had a] visit from Albert and Blanche Szoboszlay. [They were with Albert’s brother-in-law,] A[uguste] Bassier.131
November 18. Señor D[o]n E.H. de Maf
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December. Visit from E.B. Fleming.
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March. Hamburger became engaged with Carrie Hamel.132
May. Visit in Hamburg from Julius, Hermann and his wife and Evy, [and] David, Susette, and Evy.133
129 Blanche was the nickname of Louise Marie Hildesheim, Juliusʼs daughter. She married Albert Szobszlay in 1888.
130 Rothschild was the maiden name of Johnʼs aunt, Ida Lipman. Gustav Tuch, Johnʼs brother-in-law, had a Rösʼchen Rothschild in his family. Johanna Goldschmidt Rotschild died on this date and was buried in Grindelhof cemetery. (Duckesz)
131 Probably Auguste Bassier, Albert's brother in law, married to Albertine Szoboszlay.
132 In 1889, Cäcilieʼs daughter Caroline married Heinrich Hamburger (b. 1845). Their descendants changed their surname to Hamber.
133 Both David and Hermann had daughters named Evelyn: Davidʼs daughter Evelyn (b. 1868). Hermannʼs daughter Evelyn Ida (b. 1873) On June 9, Pfingsten Sunday. George H. Hugo became engaged with Dagmar.
July. Cäcilie and Sigismund came with Florrie134 and Edith Clerk, bride of Herbert Hamel.135
July 12. Martha to London on the Olivia.
July 18. Visit from Hamburger.
July 19. George Hugo's birthday.
July 20. Trip to Düsternbrook, where I met Papa, [the] Hamels, and Hamburger. Hamburger went with me through Neumühlen [on the] Schwentine and Preetz to Ploen.
Sunday, July 21. [I went] farther alone by train to Pansdorf (through Entin and Gremsmühlen). From Pansdorf on foot through G[ross] Timmensdorf to Hemmelsdorf in order to visit Albert [who was] with the teacher G.N. Thors.136 Then I sailed over the Hemmelsdorfer See and [went] on foot through Warndorf to Travemünde. From there by train to Lübeck [where I saw the] Holstenthor, [the] Burgthor,137 [the] Schiffergesellschaft,138 Fredehagen's Room,139 etc.) In the evening by train back to Hamburg.
134 Their daughter Florence, later known as “Frank” Hamel.
135 Herbert Hamel (b. 1864) was probably Sigismundʼs nephew.
136 A photo of Thors in Heiner Herde, Timmendorfer Strand, p. 104. https://books.google.com/books? id=G6P_2xpu38AC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=lehrer+thors +hemmelsdorf&source=bl&ots=Ws-1vcvbdX&sig=KaUVwAbLbmwWm9hOcOks1Ie- w4E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZKBJVZz3BMP2oAS9r4HICg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lehrer %20thors%20hemmelsdorf&f=true
137 The Holstentor and Burgtor are the two remaining 15th-century Lübeck city gates.(http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstentor)
138 A historic restaurant in Lübeck. (http://www.schiffergesellschaft.com/)
139 “Fredehagenʼsche Zimmer,” A sixteenth-century structure in Lübeck thought to be a woodcarverʼs masterpiece that was said to contain over 30,000 figures and portraits. (Intelligenz-Blatt der freien Stadt Frankfurt (Frankfurter Nachrichten 1861) (Google eBook) August. Petritsch: [a] pack of lies.140
October. Aunt Susette, Evy, Olga and Paul arrive and John from Paris.
October 18. In the morning at 10:30, [Dagmar and George Hugo were married in a] civil wedding. [Afterwards,] breakfast at Mrs. Hugo’s. [A] wedding [was conducted by] Pastor Rode141 [at] 4:30 in our house. Dinner [for] 50 people at 6:00 at Pfordte, [followed by a] ball.
On October 21, to Bremen. Seat from Harburg to Bremen over 900 points. Bremen Free Market: The enemies of Stanley (no comprendo, Señor).142
On the 22nd, [I] met Fleming at Hotel Hillmanns.
On October 29, I went with Fleming to Leith and Glasgow on the Breslau (Captain Thomas).
November 11. [I saw] “Faust” with Rottenburg.
November 13. To Grangemouth [with] Captain Pollock and Mr. Inkster.143
140 Leo Petritsch, an Austrian economist from the University of Groez, published a book on the balance of trade in 1902 and was said to be an advocate of free trade. In 1905 he was killed in a mountain-climbing accident in Styria.
141 [Friedrich Rode (1855-1923) soon to be a leading evangelical Lutheran church leader and elected official in Hamburg; at this time he was deacon in the St. Petri Kirche. In 1896 he became head pastor there. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rode)
142 The Bremen Fair (Freimarkt) is the biggest festival in Northern Germany, currently with 4 million visitors a year. It is held in the last two weeks of October. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freimarkt). During the 19th century, the fair grew bigger and bigger, with carnival-like attractions such as Buffalo Billʼs Wild West Show, which played the fair in 1890. http://www.freimarkt.de/index.php/freimarkt/historie. John appears to be complaining of an increased train fare during the fair season.
In the fall of 1890, a controversy arose about In Darkest Africa, a book by the African explorer Henry M. Stanley about the Emin Pasha Relief Exhibition, which he led from 1887-1889. (http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Emin_Pasha_Relief_Expedition.) In the book--which was the inspiration for Joseph Conradʼs story “Heart of Darkness”--Stanley described brutal treatment of Africans by members of the expedition. Stanleyʼs critics blamed him for the atrocities. John seems to ironically compare a visit to the fair to an ill- fated African safari. The purpose of the Spanish phrase is unclear, but it may mock Stanleyʼs self- defense.
143 George Inkster moved his family from the Shetland Islands to take advantage of better conditions in Grangemouth, a seaport that had been developed in the 18th century concurrently with the contruction of the Firth and Clyde Canal. (http://susiewoo.weebly.com/inkster-family-photos.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Grangemouth.) In the evening, on the Breslau [with] Captain Thomas to Hamburg, where I arrived on November 15.
November 16. I met Dagmar and George [going] to [their] wedding trip.
1890
(Mr. Brunet, Miss Trotter)
April. With Martha to Lüneburg.
Easter Sunday. Miss Trotter (Hermann's pastor) visited.144
In the course of the summer, [we had] visit[s] from Hermann and Cäcilie and Evy and Lilly,145 [and from] Uncle Julius and Louise. [I went on a] tour [of] Blankenese Süllberg146 [with the] Wood Smiths,147 Rottenburgs, [and] Simonis.148 [There was an] incident [at] Rothenburgsort149 [involving] Johannes Kiep.150
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[I went on a] tour to Kirschenland and Buxtehude151 with the three boys.
144 Lilias Trotter. On Easter Sunday, 1890, John met with a Miss Trotter, who he described as his brother Hermannʼs pastor. That individual may have been the British evangelist Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928). As a young woman, Trotter was encouraged to become a painter by the critic John Ruskin; but, influenced by evangelical preachers, decided instead to become a missionary. In 1888, Trotter traveled to Algiers to evangelize among the muslims, an enterprise that over years grew into what she called the “Algiers Mission Band.” She was the author of several religious books, journals, and illustrated pamphlets.
145 Probably Liliana Hildesheim, Hermannʼs daughter.
146 Blankenese is a wealthy suburb of Hamburg. Süllberg is a hill there with views of the Elbe River.
147 Probably Algernon Wood Smith (1843-1921), a Glasgow physician and his wife Jane Sloan (b. 1843). (1891 Scotland census.) (Their son, George F. Wood Smith (1880-1961), an inventor, emigrated to the U.S.A. and began but left unfinished a Scottish castle in Missouri. http://www.dupontcastle.com/castles/ woodsmit.htm)
148 Probably Arthur Simonis (1853-1932), an Altona-born export merchant and manufacturer in Glasgow and London. In 1911, a manufacturer of shipʼs compositions (preservative paint) in London.
149 Rothenburgsort is a district in central Hamburg.
150 Johann Nicolaus Kiep, known as Johannes. His brother, Johann Carl Kiep, was known as Carl.
151 Kirschenland: An agricultural region on the Elbe southwest of Hamburg. Buxtehude: a nearby town. (do= ”ditto”) [We went on a tour to] Schleswig-Holstein for three days at the end of July. [On the first day,] to Friedrichsruh, Tritten, Hahnheide, Lienan, Colberg, Borstorf, and Mölln.
[Then from] Mölln [through] Seedorf, Zecher, [and sights around the] Schaalsee--Kampenwerder, Stintenburg, Lassahn, etc. [Then to] Ratzelburg, [and by] train [back to] Mölln.
[Then from] Mölln (on foot) [to] Schwarzenbeck, Sachsenwald, and Friedrichsruh.
August 3. [I went] to Berlin [and visited] Charlottenburg [Palace], Urania,152 Wallner [Theater],153 and [the] Karl Ernst Theater, [the] Hotel de Rome, and Frau Retemayr [at] 89 Dorotheenstrasse. [On] August 6, [I was] back [in Hamburg].
In June, my Papa traveled to Frankfurt-Hanau,154 then to Düsternbrook.
Sunday, August 6. Dagmar [had] a daughter, Dagmar Elisabeth.
On September 30, Albert traveled to Paris to [see] Julius and his wife.
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[We had a] visit from [our] London and Manchester relatives.
152 A scientific society and observatory established in 1889. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania_%28Berlin %29)
153 The Wallner Theater had in October 1890 premiered the hit comedy Pension Schöller, which quickly became a classic of German popular theater. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Sch%C3%B6ller)
154 His birthplace. [From] May-June [I went] with Dagmar to Scotland. [We had a] visit at Fleming’s in Lochanbrae by Rahane.155 [We also saw] Mrs. Wollheim156 in Helensburgh.
[I went on a] visit in Manchester, [where I] met Aunt Ida.157
[In the town of] Church, [I visited] Mr. Forbes [of] F. Steiner & Co.158
[In Manchester, I visited Evan] Macpherson and Mr. Brookes at Tootal Broadhurst & Lee Co.159
[I paid a] visit [to Cäcilie] in Nottingham, [and] all the nieces spoke [with me].
[There in Nottingham I visited] Jacob Weinberg, Sr.160 [at] Simon May & Co.
[I paid a] visit [to] Dr. Goldschmidt and Ella G[oldschmidt] [at] Hampstead [in] London. [I went] with Ella Goldschmidt through Harwich, back to Hamburg.
[On] June 24, Martha [went] to Hannover [and] Rinteln.
155 Ebenezer Brown Fleming of Brown & Fleming, Ltd. lived at Lochanbrae on the west bank of Gare Loch near Helensburgh, Scotland. Lochanbrae appears to have been the name of his estate in the area called Mambeg.
156 Charles and Frederick Wollheim, merchants, were Johnʼs neighbors in the office building at 48 Regent Street West. http://www.mocavo.com/The-Post-Office-Annual-Glasgow-Directory-for-1893-1894- Volume-1893-94/104203/877#877
157 Ida Rothschild Lipman, wife of Isaac Lipman.
158 A textile factory.
159 Textile manufacturers in Manchester. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tootal,_Broadhurst_and_Lee_Building,_Manchester) Evan S. Macpherson (1860-1931), a director of Tootal Broadhurst Lee Co., Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce 1919-30. (Raymond Streat, The Diary Of Sir Raymond Street, 1988, Manchester University Press.) A longtime friend of Johnʼs. Alfred Brookes (b. 1853) director and secretary of the firm. (David Jeremy, Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain, 2006 Routledge.) (Google eBook); Advertisement in The Statist, Volume 21, Jan. 7- June 30,1888 p. iii.) (Google eBook p. 144).
160 Jacob Weinberg (b. 1830), a Hamburg-born Jew, the founder of the Nottingham lace manufacturer Simon, May & Co., said to have “remained steadfastly Orthodox in religion.” (Werner Eugen Mosse, Julius Carlebach, Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom, Mohr Siebeck 1991.) Thesie161 [went] with Dagmar to Niendorf-a[m]-O[stsee in] June
Papa [went] with Dagmar to Harzburg [in] June.
Frank and James [went] to Niendorf-a[m]-O[stsee] in August.
[On] October 1, Albert [was] back from Paris, then [went] with me to Hannover. [He was] hired at Metz and Ahlckes.162
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On November 3 (birthday of Emil Clauss) Dagmar [had] a daughter. They have named [her] Charlotte Emilie.
1892
[In] January, [I had a] visit from Weinberg, Jr.163
[In] February, [I was visited by] J. Addison Smith164 & Mr. Dawson.
[In] March, Simonis moved to Hamburg.
[In] January, [I took a] trip with Pauline to Hannover.
[We had an] Easter visit from Albert, then Lucy Hamel,165 [and] London and Manchester relatives, incl[uding] Ned.166
[On] Tuesday, April 19, Frank came to H.C. Eggers & Co.
161 Johnʼs youngest daughter Therese (1879-1917).
162 Musical instrument manufacturers in Hannover.
163 Jacob Weinberg had two sons: Simeon (b. 1869) and Judah (b. 1875).
164 Possibly R. Addison Smith, a Glasgow attorney.
165 Lucy Hamel (b. 1871 Manchester). Probably a niece of Sigismund Hamel; daughter of Ludwig Hamel (d. 1870) and Cleotilde Heilbron. Sister of Fergus and Herbert Hamel. (1871 England census.)
166 Ned may be Hermannʼs son Charles Edmund Hildesheim (b. 1877). [We were visited by] Alice Hartvig and [her] husband167 [and] London relatives.
George and Dagmar traveled in May-June to England and Scotland; then Dagmar [went] with Thesie to Niendorf June-July.
[We had a] visit from Julius and Louise.
[I went on a] tour with Frank and James to the Nord-Ostsee Canal. [On] Thursday, the 21st of July, [we saw] Eddelak [and] Brunsbüttel Harbor. (Herr Burchard [was there]).168
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Friday, July 22. [We traveled] through Taterpfahl, Burg, Grünenthal, "Tante Pfeil,"169 to Oldenbüttel, [where we stayed at the] Schlüter [gasthaus]. On Saturday, the 23rd, [we traveled by boat from the] Hanerau [Gieselau] lock
167 David Hildesheimʼs daughter Alice (b. 1862) and her husband Axel Hartvig (1862-1923).
168 This was probably Johann Heinrich Burchard (26 July 1852 – 6 September 1912) a Hamburg lawyer and politician who served as senator (from 1885 until his death) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He was “a sympathetic promoters of German shipping and the expansion of the Port of Hamburg as ʻGateway to the World.ʼ"http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Burchard ; http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz7448.html
John and his sons are viewing construction of the Kiel Canal. The Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee Kanal) linking Brunsbuttel and Kiel--the North Sea with the Baltic--was opened on June 20, 1895. Eddelak is a community near Brunsbüttel. (http://www.myheimat.de/brunsbuettel/kultur/kanalbaustelle-bei- kilometer-95-und-alter-eiderkanal-august-1892-m1241405,787910.html) Because the western terminus of the canal at Brünsbuttel lies on the mouth of the Elbe River, the canal linked the port of Hamburg to the Baltic.
169 Burg, Taterpfahl, and Grünenthal are sites of bridges over the Kiel Canal that were planned or under construction. Tante Pfeil (“Aunt Arrow”) sounds like a pun on the town of Taterpfahl. (http:// www.dithmarschen-wiki.de/Taterpfahl, http://sehen.albersdorf.de/2007/02/warum-in-die-ferne- schweifen.html) on the Eider to Rendsburg, then by foot to Achterwehr on the Flemhuder See.170
On Sunday, the 24th, [we went through Landwehr, Knoop,171 and Holtenau to Düsternbrook. There we met Papa. [We took a] sailing trip to Friedrichsdorf and back in the evening.
On Thursday, the 28th, [we went] through Magdeburg [and] Leipzig to Gera, [from where we visited the towns of] Nagel and Horbach [and saw] Schloss Osterstein.172
On Friday, the 29th, [we traveled] through Jena [and] Weimar to Erfurt. [On] Saturday, [the] 30th, we visit the city, then [went] to Lauterberg.
170 In the original, John mentions the Hanerau lock. But Gieselau is the site of the lock where the Eider River joins the canal. Until the construction of the Kiel Canal, the 18th-century Eider River Canal was the only inland ship route from the Baltic to the North Sea, and the Kiel Canal rendered it obsolete. http:// de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eider-Kanal. Rendsburg is on the Eider.
Die Schleusen waren die besten ihrer Zeit und gelten als die bedeutendsten Ingenieursleistung des Kanals. Die Bauausführung erfolgte nach holländischem Vorbild durch die Zimmerleute Johann und Hartwig Holler aus Wilster.
Der Kanal besaß sechs Schleusen: Holtenau, Knoop und Rathmannsdorf hoben den Wasserlauf; Königsförde, Kluvensiek und Rendsburg senkten ihn auf das Niveau derUntereider. Dabei wurden die Schiffe jeweils um etwa 2,5 m gehoben oder abgesenkt.
Mit Ausnahme der Rendsburger Schleuse, die nur eine Schiffsschleuse aufwies, besaßen die Schleusen zwei Kammern, eine Schiffsschleuse und eine Freischleuse.
Jede Schiffsschleuse hatte eine Abmessung von 35 x 7,8 Metern und konnte Schiffe bis zu 160 t Ladegewicht aufnehmen. Die Freischleuse besaß ein Breite von 4,9m und diente der Regulierung des Wasserstandes im Kanal.
171 Knoop and Holtenau were also the sites of locks on the Eider.
172 A castle in Gera. [We] visited Frau Joh[anne]s Kiep. Frau Councillor Wissmann173 [was there].
I climbed up the Hausberg. Afterwards, [I spent] 3 hours in Goslar, [where I saw the] Kaiserhaus,174 Zwinger [Tower],175 [and] city wall.
That evening, in Hildesheim. On Sunday July 31, I took in Hildesheim.
About 10 o'clock to Albert in Hannover [at] Ahlckes.
Fergus and Lucy [Hamel176 went] to England.177
August 1, back to Hamburg.
Albert came in August to Hamburg, then for a few days traveled back to Hannover. Then he came entirely back to Hamburg, and there about October 1, [started] with Carl Kohlmeyer.178
August-October [was the] cholera epidemic in Hamburg. August 27 - beginning of September [was] the worst time.
Wednesday, October 12, we left Klosterstern 1 and moved to Hansastrasse 35.
“F” On Thursday the 1st of September, unfortunately little Charlotte Emilie Hugo, our grand-daughter, died of cholera, and was laid to rest
173 Elise Wissmann, widow of German government official Hermann Wissmann and mother of Hermann von Wissmann (1853-1905), an African explorer who was named governor of German East Africa in 1895. As a German colonial administrator, he committed atrocities in the name of the German government. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Wissmann); Alexander Becker, Hermann von Wissmann: Deutschlands grösster Afrikaner; sein Leben und Wirken, (1907, A . Schall) (Google eBook), photos, Tafel 2, 52. The Hedwig von Wissmann, a German gunboat named after von Wissmannʼs wife, was evaded by Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in “The African Queen.”
174 A palace of the Holy Roman Emperors, built in the 11th century. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Imperial_Palace_of_Goslar)
175 A medieval fortification. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwinger_%28Goslar%29)
176 Fergus (1865-1942) and Lucy (b. 1871) Hamel. Probably nephew and niece of Cäcilie and Sigismund Hamel.
177 The name Ahlckes is here in the original.
178 A Hamburg home and garden store. Saturday, the 3rd of September in Niendorf, in the family grave of C. Hugo's family (grandfather [on the] father's side).179 He died in 1891.
On October 30, tour with George [Hugo], Küstermann, Lütgens, Kröneke to Ehestorf via Hausbruch.
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On December 13, Lipman & Co. Dundee stopped their payments, by which Hermann Hildesheim & Co. Manchester was negatively affected.180
Engagement of Arthur Simonis with Mathilde Rhenius from Trier.
1893
[In] April, [a] visit from Albert Szoboszlay.
On April 30, a trip to the Kirschenland with Alb[ert], George and Dagmar, Holz and his wife, Henry Hugo, Maak and his wife, Szoboszlay, Hambrook, Todtenhaupt, and Miss Brach [or Bracsh/Brasch]. “Augusto Victoria.”181
In mid-May, a visit from David, and Cäcilie from Nottingham.
Pfingsten with Albert, Frank, and James. On Saturday, the 20th, [we went] to Harzburg. On Sunday, the 21st, [we toured] Harzburg, Burgberg, Molkenhaus, Scharfenstein, Brocken, [Hotel] Brocken-Scheidegg, Schierke,
179 Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Hugo (1830-1891).
180 According to an affidavit filed by David Hildesheim in his brother Hermannʼs bankruptcy case, Hermann had been a partner in the firm of Hardy, Nathan & Sons, merchants in Manchester. When the Hardy firm closed in 1880, Hermann continued the business as Hermann Hildesheim & Co. In late 1885 Hermann decided to join the firm Lipman & Co. Dundee as a partner while continuing his own business. In December, 1892, Lipman & Co. Dundee failed, bringing down Hermann and his company with it. David lost as much as £20,000 he had invested in Hermannʼs firm. (In re Hildesheim (Court of Appeal 1893), 10 Reports of Cases Under the Bankruptcy Act 238. (Google eBook)
181 John and his party probably saw the Hamburg America Line Steamship Augusta Victoria from the bank of the Elbe as it arrived in or left Hamburg. “Augusto Victoria” mocks the name of the ship, which was launched in 1888. The ship was to have been named Auguste Victoria, after the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was correctly renamed in 1896. (http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=augvi See also http:// de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Victoria) Elend, Elbingerode, Rübeland ([where we saw] Hermann’s Cave182), Wendefurth, [and] Altenbrak, where, [at the] Hotel zum weissen Ross, we met George and Dagmar.
On Monday, the 22nd, with George through Treseburg, Königsruh, Rosstrappe, [and] Wienerode; then alone to Blankenburg, ([where I stayed at the] Gebirgs-hotel). I climbed [the] “Grandfather” [rock, from which I could see a] fire [at the] Hotel Heidelberg.183
On Tuesday, the 23rd, to Regenstein. [In Blankenburg I saw the] Michaelstein monastery ([and the] city trout pond).184 [I saw] Blankenburg with George and Dagmar. In the evening, back to Hamburg.
On April 9, a visit from Macpherson; and in the summer, Leccia, Nagel, Fergus Hamel, Steegmann, Madeleine and James Moir.
On June 15, Albert joined the business at Stehr & De Grys.185
On July 18, James, a second year student, was given third-year instruction.
On July 16, Elsie [made her] first visit to the zoological garden with Pauline, Dagmar and me.
July 25 - August 12 Martha in Wyk on [the island] Föhr.
About the beginning of July, [a] visit from Madeleine and James Moir.
182 A cave near Wernigerode. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%27s_Cave)
183 Hotel Heidelberg was at the foot of the Heidelberg. The Heidelberg and the Grossvater are peaks in the Harz mountains between the towns of Blankenburg and Timmenrode. (Baedeker 1890, http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsmauer_%28Harz%29.)
184 The fish pond of the former Michaelstein monastery was maintained by the city of Blankenburg. http:// www.klosterfischer.de/index.php/de/
185 Dry goods export agents. In fall, Mr. Walmsley.186
October 18 dinner en famille in the Hammonia Hotel, with Julius and Louise.
1894
January. Moir & Co. Glasgow failed.187
Feb. 12. With Mr. Hay in Berlin.
Feb. 13. Hannover. Feb. 11. Harburg.
Feb. 12. Great storm in all of north Germany and Hamburg.
March. Mr. Macpherson.
March 30. Frank joined Janssen & Schmilinsky.188
March 15 James comes into 10th grade including voluntary examination.
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March 16 Albert turns himself in to the military authority, is deferred one year.
March. Hermann joins E&E Taylor, London.
April 4. Hermann's silver anniversary.
186 John seems to have had an acquaintance with a Walmsley who was associated with Irish polo. There was also a Herbert Edward Walmsley (b. 1855), a cotton manufacturer and writer, but not know to have been an acquaintance of Johnʼs. He was born in Manchester, England, worked for several New England mills, and was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturersʼ Association. E. Everton Foster, ed., Lamb's Textile Industries of the United States: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and a Historical Resume of the Progress of Textile Manufacture from the Earliest Records to the Present Time (Boston, 1916, James H. Lamb) Volume 1. p. 293. (Google eBook); Herbert Edward Walmsley, Cotton spinning and weaving, A practical and theoretical treatise, 3d ed. (Manchester, 1893, A. Heywood & Son.) https://archive.org/stream/cottonspinninga00walmgoog#page/n22/mode/2up.
187 Frederick Moir of Moir & Co. Glasgow, listed as calico printers in the 1894-95 Glasgow Post Office Directory. A different Frederick Moir of Glasgow was associated with the African Lakes Company.
188 1858-1929 machine company in Hamburg March 25. Easter Sunday tour with Albert through Blankenese, Wedel, [and] Uetersen to Elmshorn.
In the summer, a tour by steamer to Buxtehude, then on foot to Neukloster, with Dagmar and George and Hambrook and his wife. Then a trip with Albert through Wandsbek, Rahlstedt, Lüthensee, Kupfermühle, to Oldesloe.
October 18. My father's 90th birthday. November 1. 70th birthday of Aunt Ida Lipman. December 16. 80th birthday of Dr. Simonis.189
October 6. Our silver anniversary, for which Cäcilie and Malvina came from Nottingham. We went by train to Bergedorf and by carriage to Geesthacht, and back the same way, with all of the children, George and Elsie Hugo, and Cäcilie and Malvina as well.
On November 7, without previous illness, my father-in-law B.H. Meyer190 died from a stroke in Grossborstel. I took over his companies.
[margin note:] Buried at the 2nd intersection.191
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We received visits in the course of the year from David and Susette, Julius and Louise, Olga, Ernst, Fleming, McPherson, S.A. Smith, MacKay, Rottenburg, Simonis, and Mrs. Clauss. I had an artesian well drilled in Borstel (150 Marks).
In January, I bought 2 horses, Fiffi and Mille.
189 Possibly the father of Arthur Simonis.
190 Baruch Heinrich Meyer (b. Randers, Denmark,1813), Pauline Meyerʼs father, operated a commission agency, shipping agency and galvanizing shop at 39 Admiralitätstrasse. He and his wife Jeanette Cohn [sic] are listed in the graves at the Grindel Friedhof.
191 Possibly refers to the burial location in Grindel Friedhof. May 1. I leased Borstel to a bleacher, Johann von Stiepen. On December 1, I leased Borstel to E. Maack.
Thesie in Schwarzenbek. She visited Geesthacht with Martha.
On April 24, Frank left Hamburg on the mail steamer Kaiser as machine assistant for all of the main harbor places in East Africa. He returned home on August 7. Relocated by the military authority, he went on September 28 to Charlottenburg on the Kasimir.
On August 5, Martha and I went to 27 Krummestrasse in Cuxhaven on the Cobra. We saw Dr. Voigtländer and his sister.
In September, on the 18th or 19th, my old Papa had a fall in his bedroom, which resulted in an injury of the head and one leg, from which he couldn't recover completely. His 91st birthday on the 18th of October went by in rather good health. (Julius & Louise [visited].) Soon, however, a great weakness appeared, and at the beginning of November he was no longer able to eat solid food. On Thursday, December 5, he passed away gently, and his burial took place in Ohlsdorf Sunday, December 8. (Julius [came].)
[Margin note:] December
In the summer, I visited “Italy in Hamburg” for Emil Clauss’s panorama[s] “Naples” and “Catacombs.”192
On June 19, big imperial celebration for the inauguration of the Kiel Canal.
1896
192 Clauss was not a painter, but he promoted the public exhibition of panoramic paintings by Philipp Fleischer. The painting of Naples mentioned here became the subject of a lawsuit brought by the artist in 1900. According to the case report, the painting had a length of 115 meters and a width of 15 meters and was exhibited in 1894 on the Heiligengeistfeld, a fairground near the Hamburg harbor.
In 1896, the painting was rolled up, packed in a 15-meter wooden case. and stored it in a Hamburg harbor warehouse. When it was shipped In 1900 to Budapest for exhibition, it was discovered to have been damaged while in storage by mold, moisture, loss of color, and holes in the canvas. Fleischer v. Elkan & Co., Hanseatische Gerichtzeitung 29:169 (Hamburg,1907, Otto Meissners Verlag.) Paul Rottenburg’s visit March 27 [he stayed at the] Hamburg Hof. Louis Leisler193 died March 31 Frankfurt am Main.
George and Dagmar in Oevelgönne.
On August 7, to Leith on the Weimar [with] Captain Thomas. On Sunday, the 9th, [I was] in Glasgow, where I met Frank [at the] Central Hotel.
On the evening of the 10th, with Fleming to Lochanbrae, where I met Martha. On Tuesday the 11th, dinner at Rottenburg's with Kosmack194 and Frank. Harry Rottenburg [was there].
On Wednesday, the 12th, to Manchester.
The evening of Thursday the 13th, with Smith at Chorlton.
On Friday, August 14, to Bradford. Evening in Radcliffe on Trent with Cäcilie [Hamel]. Saturday the 15th with Cäcilie to Kegworth. Malvina's six children and Lizzie's two.195 [Saw the] dog "Ross" in Radcliffe. [On] Sunday morning, the 16th, to Nottingham. Dinner with Herr Weinberg, then excursion to Clifton with Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg and Madame Levy from Paris.
Evening with George Behrend196 with Mr. and Mrs. Maillart. On the morning of Monday, the 17th,
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193 Paul Rottenburgʼs “stepfather,” Louis Leisler (b. about 1820, Mainz). He founded the Glasgow chemical manufacturer Leisler, Bock, & Co., which became the most important chemical supplier in England through a monopoly on iodine. He adopted Rottenburg, who was his wifeʼs orphaned nephew. (Otto Carl Kiep, Mein Lebensweg 1886 - 1944: Aufzeichnungen während der Haft (2013 Lukas Verlag), pp. 25-27.) He funded exploration in Australia. Mt. Leisler, in the Kintore Range of Central Australia, was named after him. (William Henry Tietkens, Ferdinand freiherr von Muller, Ralph Tate, Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Journal of the Central Australian Exploring Expedition, 1889 (Adelaide, 1891, C.E. Bristow) (Google eBook)
194 Max Kosmack was a flour dealer in Glasgow and an uncle of Otto Kiep. (Otto Carl Kiep, Mein Lebensweg 1886 - 1944: Aufzeichnungen während der Haft (2013 Lukas Verlag), pp. 44, 56.)
195 Malvina Rothera and Elise “Lizzie” Clark are two of Cäcilieʼs daughters.
196 Probably the Liverpool ship broker of the firm Bahr, Behrend & Ross. to London, [where I stayed at] Rayment's Private Hotel [on] London-Wall.
[I visited] David and his family [where I met] Mrs. Warburg and her two daughters, Hermann, and Walter.197
Tuesday the 18th, in the evening to dinner at W.B. Jameson's in West Kensington, then with them to [the] East Indian Exhibition. Wednesday the 19th evening at Simonis's in Foresthill.
Thursday the 20th early to Calais, M. Lewenz ([and] Mr. Cassel from N.Y.)
In the evening at Julius's [home] in Paris, 3 Place de Vosges (formerly Place Royale). Friday the 21st, breakfast with John and Jeanne, 25 Rue des Francs Bourgeois.
Saturday the 22nd, breakfast with Blanche and Albert, 8 bis Rue Martel. (Andrée Madeleine and Jules [were there].)198
Sunday the 23rd with Louise and Julius to St. Germain aux Layes [for the] Fete des Loges in the forest.199
In the evening via Cologne to Bonn [and I met] Siegfried Bauer). [On] Monday the 24th from there to Ems and the Malberg.200 [with] L. Benzian201 on the mountain-train.
197 Walter Julius Hildesheim (1870-1937) is Davidʼs nephew, the eldest son of Davidʼs brother Hermann (1839-1921).
Mrs. Warburg is Davidʼs sister-in-law, Ellen Josephson Warburg (b. 1857), the wife of Siegmund Samuel Warburg (1839-1904). He was the brother of Davidʼs wife Susette Warburg Hildesheim.
The two daughters who were present were probably Gerda Eugenie Warburg (b. 1880), who in 1906 married Davidʼs son Hermann (b. 1874), and her sister, Anna Beata Warburg (1881-1967).
198 Probably son and daughter of Blanche and Albert. Jules 1891-1914.
199 A carnival held annually in the forest at St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris.
200 A mountain overlooking Ems.
201 [Louis Benzian was the Hamburg representative of a Glasgow chemical company. Chemiker-Zeitung No. 79, 1893; Oesterreichische Chemiker-Zeitung, 1895, Volume 9, p. 253. In the evening through Lahnthal via Giessen, Cassel, [and] Hannover to Hamburg, where on Tuesday the 25th I arrived again in the early morning.
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Nothing special happened. Frank in Charlottenburg. James in Geneva.
1898
In August to Bremen [on the] Pflüger.202
September 9, with James by train to Cuxhaven. We dined [at the] Dolles Hotel, then by foot to [the] Damm, and stayed overnight there. In the morning of the 10th, further through Wremen and stayed along the dike until Bremerhaven-Geestemünde. On the evening of September 9, [we saw a] strikingly beautiful northern light which we had not noticed, however, at the Damm. From Geestemünde we went further by steamer to Vegesack. The Friesian writer Hermann Allmers203 [lives near there]. [drawing \compare photo] [At Weddewarden,] see [the] picture in the Schloss Morgenstern Restaurant near Imsum Church.
We arrived about 7:00 in the evening in Vegesack, where Frank has been employed for a short time at Bremer Vulkan.204
202 Capt. Cl. Hoever sailed the fully-rigged ship J.C. Pflüger out of Bremen for Honolulu and San Francisco in July, 1898. http://books.google.com/books? id=6LQOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571&lpg=PA571&dq=pfl%C3%BCger+bremen +1898&source=bl&ots=uOGDP3Zva8&sig=zpYgmhLxkpLgOTMEHru7BB55ST4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a_xJV NCRCO31igLO7YHADQ&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=pfl%C3%BCger%20bremen %201898&f=false
203 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Allmers
204 A large shipbuilding firm on the Weser River in Bremen/Vegesack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bremer_Vulkan On the morning of the 11th by steamer to Bremen [with] Neumark,205 [and then] in the evening by train to Hamburg.
On September 30 to Paris.
Saturday, October 1, I arrived there [and] stayed with Julius and Louise at 12 Rue Malhen.
In the evening I dined with Blanche. André Madeleine [and] Jules de Paris Laureate [were there]. Sunday October 2, with Julius and Louise through Nogent-sur-Marne to Ville-Evrard, [where we met] John, Jeanne, and Monsieur Léon. Monday October 3, [I saw] Mr. Howe [of] T.B.L. Co.206
In the evening, return trip to Hamburg. [In addition,] I spoke to Albert Szoboszlay at the station. Tuesday the 4th, back in Hamburg. [I saw] F. Stein.
Marianne Wolff died [at the] end of July 1898.207 Evelyn (David's daughter) [was] in Hamburg [in] October. Anna Warburg from Stockholm [was also] in Hamburg [in] October.
Our James contracted diphtheria and scarlet fever in Leipzig, and Pauline traveled to him in March for a few weeks.
On April 9 he arrived again in Hamburg, and trekked [at the] beginning of October to Kiel (casework).
In November we heard that John H[ildesheim] ([in] Paris) suddenly died. Julius, unfortunately, [is] quite apathetic, [and] sold his business.
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205This may be Friedrich Neumark (1876-1957), who at that time was graduating from technical college and later became a prominent Bremen architect, or his father Johann Neumark (1838-1905) who was a painter in Bremen. The family was Jewish. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Neumark
206 Tootal Broadhurst & Lee, Manchester textile manufacturers.
207 Marianne Wolff (b. 1836) was the sister of Susette and Siegfried Warburg. Early in the year Martha went to Sagan. In the summer she went to Linden and Birmingham. Pauline and Therese went to Copenhagen to the Abrahams in the summer. Afterwards, Therese passed her teacher’s examination well.
In July I visited Benzian, Travemünde.
I traveled August 7 to Scottland on the Weimar [with] Cpt. Thomas, arriving on the 9th in the evening [at the] Windsor Hotel, Glasgow. [On the] 10th, 11th, and 12th [I was] at Fleming’s home, Lochanbrae. [On the ] 12th Cove. On the afternoon [of the] 12th I dined at Schölles’s home [in] Helensburgh.
Two Fräulein Schmidts, Ahrend and his wife and baby. Breakfasted with Rottenburg [at the] New Club. On the evening [of the] 12th [I went] with Fleming through Carlisle to Preston. Sunday, the 13th, with Mr. Aitken [to] Blackpool. Sunday evening, Victoria Hotel, Manchester.
Monday evening with Walmsley and Burditt and then around to Belle Vue (Battle of Omdurman).208 Tuesday after the 15th Bradford, Briggs, Priestley & Sons and Mr. Hay. Tuesday evening in 12 Devonshire Promenade at Cäcilie’s (Florrie and Alice).
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Wednesday, August 16, a short visit at Simon May & Co. then for luncheon to Kegworth [with] all the four boys, two girls, and Madge. In the afternoon, via Leicester two hours to 13 Redington Road, London, to David, Susette, Evy, Gertie, Paul & Oscar.
Thursday the 17th, with David [at] Earls Court.
208 Battle of Omdurman. The amusement park Belle Vue Gardens near Manchester featured spectacular battle reenactments with pyrotechnics, often depicting events from the most recent British colonial wars. David Mayer, The World on fire...Pyrodramas at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, c. 1850-1950, in John M. MacKenzie, Popular Imperialism and the Military: 1850-1950, Manchester University Press, 1992, p. 179. The 1899 season featured a reenactment of a battle in the Soudan Campaign at Omdurman, in which an Anglo-Egyptian army defeated a Mahdist force under the Khalifa in September, 1898. (Guide to the Zoological Gardens, Bellevue, Manchester, 1899, p. 25, in Chethamʼs Library, Manchester. Friday the 18th, dined at Adolph and Winnie's in Harrow.209
Early Saturday the 19th, visited Hermann and Cäcilie in Brondesbury [and] Evy and Daisy.210 In the afternoon, looked for Carrie211 [at] Waterloo Station, but we didn't meet. Then spoke to Lieschen and Ina in Redington Road. Paul and Gertie [went] to the Stages of France.212
In the evening of Saturday the 19th, [went] on the Peregrine [from] Harwich to Hamburg, arriving Monday morning the 21st, [and met] James Reid213 and Willy Schlosser.
In August, Frank found [a] good position [with] RNH at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig.
Therese [went] to Harrow [on] September 2. She visited us [at] Christmas.
1900
May 1. Moved [to] 25 Hochallee.
June. With Albert to Lauenberg.
July 1 Frank [got a] position at the Imperial Shipyard [in] Kiel, RIN. He came at the end of June for a visit.
July 18, to Paris. [I spent] one night [at] 44 Rue Vital, Passy, with Julius and Louise.
209 Davidʼs son Adolph and his wife Florence Winifred Beeston were married in 1894.
210 Hermannʼs daughters Evelyn and Olga Daisy.
211 Probably Davidʼs daughter Caroline.
212 Apparently the first Tour de France Auto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_Automobile)
213 Possibly James Reid (b. 1839), M.P. from Greenock, Scotland 1900-1906, vice-chairman of Fleming, Reid & Co., Ltd. of Greenock, hosiery manufacturers. (Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, eds., Who's who, Volume 55 (1903, A. & C. Black) (Google eBook) http://books.google.com/books? id=vjsJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1148&lpg=PA1148&dq=james+reid+mp&source=bl&ots=F583eb- zp9&sig=HpHYrgAzqXhVsRsdoieMMmE74x8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KJ9KVO- QPNH1iQKjy4HADg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=james%20reid%20mp&f=false Two days in the Exhibition [Paris Exhibition Universelle of 1900]. [We saw the] trottoir roulant [moving sidewalk], etc. [We were with the] Szoboszlays, Martin Lipman and his wife, A. Held,214 Bertha Held, Cäcilie Hamel.215
On the 20th, with Cäcilie [on the] Alma to Southampton via Havre.
On the 21st and 22nd, in Southampton at the Hamburgers' "Home Lea." Hamburger significantly better.
On the 23rd, in London [at the] Great Northern Hotel. On the 24th, to Bradford. In the evening, to Manchester [and] Stockport.
On the 25-26th, [At the] Grand Hotel, Manchester. [Saw] Macpherson. On the evening of the 26th, in London at the South Place Hotel.
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July 27, at "The Cedars" with Gladys, etc., and [her] sister Aldyth. In the afternoon to Brondesbury. In the evening, 13 Redington Road with David, Susette, Olga, Evy, Gerty, Paul, Hermann, Cäcilie Hildesheim, Ned, Lily, and Dr. Franz Lindheimer.216
July 28 early with Therese to Parkeston Quay, Harwich. Luncheon in the Great Eastern Hotel, Harwich, then by steamer to Felixstowe. Coincidentally met A. Gallagher. Dinner at the Great Eastern Hotel, evening on board the Peregrine: [with] Gallrein [I played] Kopf, [with] Lüdicke, Skat.217
On Monday the 30th, in Hamburg early in the morning (McAdams).
214 Held was the family name of Cäcilie Hamelʼs grandsonʼs wife: Malvina Hamel Rotheraʼs eldest son Arthur Cecil Hamel Rothera married Rose Desirée Held in 1906. The marriage may have taken place in Melbourne, Australia, where he went to assume a post at the university. (British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary, W. J. O'Connor, 1991, Manchester University Press, p. 504.)
215 Video of Paris in 1900 including Exhibition Universelle: https://youtu.be/8MZGusqwKPo
216 Olga, Evy, Gerty, and Paul are David and Susetteʼs children. Ned and Lily are Hermann and Cäcilieʼs children. (Note: Hermann also had daughters named Olga and Evelyn.) Franz Philipp Lindheimer married Hermannʼs daughter Lilian (Lily) in 1900.
217 Skat is a German card game. Kopf is probably also a card game. (e.g. Schafskopf, Doppelkopf). August 4-5. Frank and James in Hamburg for a visit.
August 9. Martha returned from Binz (Rügen) where she was for four weeks in July. Dagmar back from Oeynhausen.
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In the fall, with Fleming on Saturday to Lübeck, Eutin, Grevesmühlen, Holsteinische Schweiz, and Kiel. Dined with Frank and James. Sunday evening, back to Hamburg.
Therese took a position in Plön with Mrs. Harms.
1901
Visit from Szoboszlay.
Martha.
January 22. In the evening to Paris--there on Julius's affairs.
January 23. [Death of] Queen Victoria.
January 24. McPherson [was at the] Hotel Regina.
January 25. McPherson [went] to Villefranche.
January 26. At the Hotel de L'Ecu de France [with] Monsieur L. Rénaud [from] Lyon and Julius.
January 27. In the evening, back in Paris.
January 28. Sunday morning [in] Aubervilliers.
January 28. 1:50 in the afternoon to Hamburg.
January 29. Monday morning, back in Hamburg where Wollheim, Simonis, [and] Rothwell waited for me.
[I had] laryngitis until about April 9. August 12-13. Via Holland and Antwerp to Brussels. Visited Muguets. In the evening Ostende.
August 14-15. [In] London [at the] Hotel Russell. [Met with] Mr.Walmsley, Hofmann from Vienna, [and] Henschel218 from Moscow.
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Then [I visited with] Cäcilie at Lenton, Nottingham.
In the evening of the 15th, at the Grand Hotel Manchester, I met Fleming, Stahlbuhk and Eggers. Tuesday, August 16, at Tootals.219 August 17, to Glasgow to the Exhibition.220
August 20-22. At [E.B.] Fleming's in Lochanbrae, then on the 24th on the Coblenz from Leith I returned to Hamburg.
October 1. I sold Admiralitätstrasse 39221 to I.W.C. Buhse.
November 12. Visited Frank in Kiel regarding patent for cartridges.222 Agreement with Benzian.
December. Agreement with Rosenbacher. Move to 50 Hohe Bleichen.
1902
January 31. Visit Rothwell
February 6. Visit Fleming, Stringer, Kenneth Lee, Paul Rottenburg.
218 Possibly the German railroad engine manufacturer or scrap metal processor
219 The Manchester textile company Tootals Broadhurst & Lee, with which Evan Macpherson was connected.
220 The Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/oct1999.html
221 This had been the office and shop of Paulineʼs father B.H. Meyer.
222 John published specifications to patent a device for unloading out-of-date ammunition. Arms & Explosives (1904) Volume 12, Issue 139, p. 54. (Google eBook) September 5-8 with James: Flensburg, Flensburg Föhrde, Sanderburg, Augustenburg, Düppeln, Glücksburg, Kappeln (where we met Frank and Jacobsen), Schlei, Schleswig, Segeberg-Oldesloe.
October. Visit: Cäcilie Hildesheim
November. Albert Szoboszlay, Adams, Rothwell married, Vardon.
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November 4. To Berlin and back. [I visited] Herr Huhn at Ludwig Loewe & Co. and F.A. Deichen.223
November 12. Therese sick with scarlet fever.
November 26. Therese substantially better.
November 30. I received a message about the death of my brother Julius in Paris, which occurred on November 27 or 28th.
December 20. Therese's recuperation.
1903
[In] May, [I was] in Glasgow. [I went to] Lochanbrae. [I went on a] tour with Fleming. Visited Schoelles in Helensburgh.
Visited Cäcilie in Nottingham.
[In] Manchester [I met at the] Grand Hotel with Mr. and Mrs. Macpherson.224
London with Mr. Hay.
223 An armaments manufacturer, Loewe had an interest in the Mauser and employed the designer of the Luger guns and cartridges. Ernst Huhn was head of the machine division. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ludwig_Loewe; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Waffen_und_Munitionsfabriken; http://www.albert- gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen1/firmadet14804.shtml; http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz35935.html F.A. Deichen was a Berlin machine manufacturer. John may be trying to exploit his cartridge patent.
224 Evan Stuart Macpherson, d. 1931, was chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Raymond Street, The diary Of Sir Raymond Street, Manchester University Press, 1988. Therese visited the Segelbergs.
August with Walmsley in the Berlin Kaiserhof.
Kreibig affair.
Kenneth Lee225 in Hamburg [for] three months.
1904
April to Manchester (Rothwell died226), Nottingham, London.
Dinner [with] Mrs. Harold Lee.
In summer, three days in Fallingbostel.
August. Visit Walmsley, [his] wife and daughter. They came from Norway.
September. Vyvyan Marr.227
October. Mrs. Macpherson228 died.
November 1. Aunt Ida 80 years old.
1905
225 Later Chairman of Tootal, Broadhurst & Lee. Raymond Street, The diary Of Sir E. Raymond Street Manchester University Press 1988), p. 371).
226 Frederick William Rothwell (d. 2 April 1904, Manchester).
227 Vyvyan Marr. Accountant, actuary, author.
228 Elizabeth Macpherson (d. 5 Oct. 1904, Manchester), wife of Evan Stuart Macpherson (1860-1931). Elizabeth Macpherson memorial bench in Old Meldrum: http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/ GC2NYB0_mystery-memorial?guid=d92292a2-c29e-4352-be40-dcbdbd7fa298 May 5. Foot tour with James:229 Eutin, Ukleisee, Bennskoppe, Lütjenburg (Runge’s house)230 Triddelfritz231 (Waldersee's Grave)232.
May 6. We visited Panken, Walterneversdorf, the Baltic coast, Schönberg Beach, Stein, Laboe, and Kiel.233
July. [We visited the forest at] Göhrde, [which is overseen by the] forester “Vogt.”234 [Saw] the Körnung235 with Pauline.
August. Death of Malvina.
September. Visit from Adolf.
1906
March 10, to Leith on the Weimar.
March 15-18 at Fleming's. (19 Kensington Gate)
March 16. Anglers Dinner.
March 17. Performance [at the] German Club, Renfrew Street.
229 Places in Schleswig-Holstein.
230 Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810) was an important early Romantic painter who was born in Wolgast, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and whose birthplace is now a museum. He also wrote fairy-tales in Low German dialect that inspired the brothers Grimm. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg- Vorpommern (Hrsg): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Vorpommersche Küstenregion. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, S. 371.
231 Fritz Triddelfitz was a literary character created by Friedrich “Fritz” Reuter (1810-1874), a German- Jewish humorist from Mecklenburg-Schwerin who wrote in Low German. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fritz_Reuter
232 Field Marshal Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee (1832-1904) had commanded troops against the Boxer Rebellion. His grave is in the family cemetery in Lütjenburg.
233 Towns on the Baltic coast near Kiel. (Walterneversdorf and Panken cannot be found on current maps.)
234 Göhrde. A forest in Mecklenburg southeast of Hamburg. The forest was the hunting-ground of the dukes of Brunswick and Luneberg and protected from logging by an official forester called the Vogt. http:// de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsforst_G%C3%B6hrde
235 A pond in the Göhrde. http://www.seen.de/kornung/ March 19-20. Manchester
March 20-21. Bradford, Nottingham
March 21-24. London. Saw Frank at the Wilton Hotel, 158 Warwick Street near Victoria Station. 236
March 25. Back to Hamburg via Hook of Holland.
April 12-16, Easter. Harz tour with James and Therese.
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April 12. To Hildesheim, Hotel Hotopp.
April 13. In the morning, sightseeing in Hildesheim. Then by train to Wernigerode through Goslar and Heudeber. [At the] Gothic Haus [hotel], [we had] egg pancakes.237 On foot [to] Hasserode [where we visited the] Steinerne Renne Hotel,238 [which is built above a] waterfall. [We climbed the] Ottofelsen.239 [We visited the town of] Three Annen Hohne.240 Chales de Beaulieu [was there]. 241
236 Frankʼs residence at the time. Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Charter, Supplemental Charters, By-laws, and List of Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1908, p. 182. (Google eBook)
237 A hotel in Wernigerode. http://www.travelcharme.com/fileadmin/user_upload/hotels_resorts/ hotelprospekte/Deutsch/Hotelprospekt-Gothisches-Haus-2013-dt.pdf
238 http://www.steinerne-renne.de/
239 A rock formation with views of the Harz and surrounding towns of Wernigerode and Drei Annen Hohne. http://www.harzlife.de/tip/ottofelsen.html
240 A community within Wernigerode named after three women named Anne who were female relatives of the local prince and the nearby Hohne rocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drei_Annen_Hohne
241 Franz Martin Chales de Beaulieu (1847-1945) was a Prussian officer who at that time had recently resigned from the German general staff. He served in the German Southwest Africa colony during an action under the command of Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha to put down a rebellion of the Herero people. He resigned in 1904, citing a heart condition, after being reprimanded by von Trotha for opposing the generalʼs murderous campaign against the Africans, which later came to be regarded as a precursor of Nazi genocide programs. Chales de Beaulieu later commanded troops in World War I. http:// de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chales_de_Beaulieu. April 14. On foot to Elend. Trans-Harz train [from] Elend to Ilfeld. At Ilfeld we stayed at the Hotel zur Tanne, [had] trout.
By foot [to] Hohnstein. [Saw the] ruins.242 Through Hainfeld to Stolberg. [We had] anchovies on toast [at the] Hotel zum Kanzler [and admired the topiary] beech trees.243
Omnibus to Rottleberode ([drank] Auerberg Schnapps). By train through Berga-Kelbra to North Hessen. [We stayed at the] Hotel zum Römischen Kaiser. Two teen-age daughters [were there].
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April 15. By train to Walkenried. Ruined monastery with painted wood statue of the Count von Hohnstein. By foot. Lovely little forest through [Bad] Sachsa to Ravensberg. View of Brocken.
Dinner and "von Dem da" wine,244 Harz cheese, and Nordhäuser.245 Descent to Lauterberg via Wiesenbeker Pond. Coffee at Mennecke’s.246
Further through Scharzfeld to Herzberg. By train: Herzberg-Osterode. Easter celebration fire in the forest and fields.247 Stayed at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Osterode. Saw “giant” bones at the city hall.248
242 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohnstein_Castle
243 There is a drawing in the original depicting topiary beech trees near the hotel; they are still visible on satellite maps; http://http://www.zum-kanzler.de/.
244 “From him there” probably local wine.
245 A liquor favored by Bismarck. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordh%C3%A4user_Korn
246 Gustav Mennecke owned a chair factory in Bad Lauterberg.
247 Bonfires are lit in northwestern Germany and other parts of Europe to celebrate Easter, a seasonal custom from pre-Christian times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Fire
248 Mammoth bones were often mistakenly identified and exhibited as giant human fossils. Henry H. Howorth, F.S.A. “The Mammoth in Europe,” Geological Magazine (1881) VIII:198 (Cambridge University Press, 1881.) (Google eBook) April 16. By foot through old Harzstrasse Lerbach in the valley leaving through Heiligen Stock.
Prinzen See (Bunterbock) to Claustal (Schützenhaus).
By train to Goslar through Wildemann,.
Dinner in "Der Achtermann" [Hotel],
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July 13- September 13, Marie Macpherson249 in Hamburg. At the beginning of August, Hamburger in Hamburg together with Carrie and Frank.
My son-in-law's mother Frau Charles Hugo died on March 29, 1906 in Hamburg.
1907250
My sister-in-law Susette Hildesheim [died in] London, July 28, 1907.
My wife's aunt, Frau Therese Abraham,251 [died in] Copenhagen July 27. Pauline and I traveled for the burial to Copenhagen July 30-August 3. [We visited] Rosenborg, Frederiksborg, and Klampenborg.
August 25-26. I was in Berlin [at the hotel] Askanischer Hof [and] met together there with David [and] his daughter Evy, who shortly before were in Hamburg, and Anna Warburg.
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August 26-September 8. Visit from Friken Sine Madsen from Copenhagen.
Dr. James Hugo died on September 14 1907, 39 years [old].
249 Evan Stuart Macphersonʼs daughter, about 21.
250 Hermann Hildesheim (Hilton) married Gerda Warburg on December 21, 1907.
251 Therese Meyer Abraham (1821-1907) Sister of B.H. Meyer, Paulineʼs father. Census of 1885 Copenhagen has Therese Abraham, 63, born Randers, married to Joseph Abraham. Macpherson and Peter Robbers.
December 16-19 our son Frank, [who has become] A.M.I.C.E. (Associate Member, Institution of Civil Engineers), visited us December 21-January 1, 1908.
1908
On March 1st, Robbers & Jörss took over Tootal’s export agency.
At the beginning of March, Mr. Powell and Bruce Macpherson252 [visited]. In the middle of April: E. S. Macpherson253 [and] Adolf Hildesheim, both in Hotel Esplanade.
Supper [with] Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Kiep in the Kaiserhof Altona. [They are] buying a house in Ballenstedt.254
On July 2, I traveled on the Hamburg-American Liner Kaiserin Augusta Victoria to Southampton [with] Captain Puser, Dr. Heim, and Frau von Ludiges. [I stayed in]London [at the] Wilton Hotel. Frank [was] in the Franco-British Exhibition255 on July 4.
Sunday, [July] 5. [I] visited Hermann [in] Brondesbury then dined at David’s. In the evening I went from St. Pancras to Nottingham.
[July] 6. I visited Cäcilie, Alice, Lieschen and Ernest Hildesheim from Buenos Aires.256
252 Bruce Macpherson (b. 1889) Son of E.S. Macpherson.
253 Evan S. Macpherson, 1860-1931, a director of Tootal Broadhurst & Lee and of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce 1919-1930.
254 In the northern Harz mountain range.
255 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%E2%80%93British_Exhibition_%281908%29
256 Alice and Lieschen (Elise) Hamel are Cäcilieʼs daughters. Ernst (Ernest) Hildesheim (later called Hilton) (b. 1871) was a bookkeeper or accountant in Buenos Aires. He arrived in Liverpool from River Plate, Argentina on the Raeburn on May 4, 1908. He sailed for Buenos Aires on August 8. (U.K. incoming and outward passenger lists.) Early on [July] 7 to Manchester. In the evening and night with Macpherson. Marie [Macpherson] - tennis.
In the afternoon of the 8th, via Carlisle, Carstairs, Coatbridge, and Stirling, to Oban, where I arrived early in the morning of the 9th. [Visited] Loch Awe.
[July] 9. [Stayed at the] Caledonian Hotel [in Oban]. [Went] with Fleming in his new trap to Kilchoan via Pass of Melford. We arrived in the afternoon.
[Met] Ethel, Frances, Miss Sim, Miss Spence.
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[July] 10-11. Trout catching.
[July] 12. Sunday walk over the hill.
[July] 13. On Fleming's motorboat with Fleming over Loch Melford. [From] there [by] coach through Kilmartin, [where we saw the] Druidical Stones,257 [and] through Lochgilphead to Ardrishaig. Then on the Jones through [the] Kyles of Bute,258 [to] Rothesay, Ganrock, then by train to Glasgow. In the evening Fleming's factory259 and supper in the Clarence Restaurant. North British Station Hotel. 260
[July] 14. Looking for my lost suitcase. Breakfast with Fred Moir in the Clarence. Discovery of the suitcase in Glasgow. [Visits with] Consar, Whyte and Mackay,261 McAuly, Alfred Davis, Jr., Sotwelles Jr., Lammie Paterson,
257 http://www.stonesofwonder.com/nether.htm
258 A channel between the Isle of Bute and the Scottish mainland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Kyles_of_Bute
259 “Fleming, D.H. & Sons, Rosebank factory and Gray St. works, Lochee; office 5 Bain square”--listing in Worrall's Directory of the northeastern counties of Scotland 1877
260 http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA01218
261 The Glasgow whisky merchants. Hevil, Charles Seligmann, etc., etc. Evening with Rottenburg. Auto to "Dalnair" at Drymen.262
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On the morning of the 15th, back to Glasgow by auto. In the afternoon to Leith, then on the Weimar [with] Captain Thomas to Hamburg, where I arrived on the evening of the 17th.
October 16-17. With Alfred Wyatt Smith to Berlin: [the] Central Hotel and Sorau technical trade school.263
Oktober 17. To Frankfurt am Oder.
That evening, at the Metropol, Berlin.264 [Stayed at the] Askanischer Hof.
October 18. Potsdam Sans Souci, Neues Palais.265
In the evening, back in Hamburg.
October 20-21 [Visit from] M. Clayton
October 22. [Visit from] Paul Rottenburg.
Visit from Johann Kiep.
1909
February 26-28 visit from E.B. Fleming.
March 12. James’s engagement to Elisabeth Rosenfeld.
April 30-May 1. Visit from Walmsley, Howe, and Hofmann.
262 Rottenburgʼs home was “Dalnair” at Drymen.
263 There was a weaving school in Sorau, Berlin teaching the manufacture of cotton, linen, and jute. http:// books.google.com/books?id=4MJGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA888&lpg=PA888&dq=sorau+technical+school +berlin&source=bl&ots=EBg_OhP3ZH&sig=J_cktblW6AWdwEeXQLQccrDjrsk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JTITVLfl Hs2togTb44GABw&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sorau%20technical%20school %20berlin&f=false
264 The Metropol-Theater. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol-Theater_%28Berlin-Mitte%29
265 Two palaces near Berlin built by Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia. May 25. Visit from Carl Schneider from Munich.
May 29, Saturday of Pfingsten. Death of our dear son James.266
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May 28. Visit from Frank from London, who about the middle of July accepted a position with Director Toussaint, and reported on August 25.
July 27. Visit from Fleming.
July 29. With him by steamer via Lübeck, Travemünde, Kellenhusen, [and] Dahme, to Burg auf Fehmarn.
July 30 [Visited] Tiefstaken resort and excursion to Marienleuchte. [Stayed at] Wissers Hotel [in] Burg auf Fehmarn.
July 31 Railroad until Burgstaken, by steamer via Heiligenhafen to Kiel. [Stayed at the] Hotel Germania.
August 1 back to Hamburg.
November 11 to Bremerhaven. Arbitration with Moritz Kayser of H. Meyer267 & Co. Lübeck, regarding the Seebeck Shipyard.268
November 12. Hunt at Scheessel with Dr. Wiengreen and R. Freggeng.
November 26. Fire [at the] office [at] 50 Hohe Bleichen.
November 26. Louis Rosenfeld died.
December. My brother Hermann was in Hamburg.
Christmas. Frank became engaged to Helga Kongsted in Copenhagen.
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266 By suicide.
267 Probably no relation. Lubeck city directory 1880.
268 http://seebeckwerft.blogspot.com/ 1910
January. On a visit [to] Fleming. Dr. Phelps, Skelmorlie Hydrop.269 [Saw a performance by the] Udel Quartet.270
March 20. With Frank by train to Dollern. By wagon with Jacob Petersen to Steinkirchen. In the evening, back through Luhe.
May. Visit [from]: Brooks, Howe, Walmsley, and Coelho.
May 20. To Southampton on the Cincinnati. Schmacht, Director Schultz- Pelzer, Fräulein Claussen.
May 27. Evening with David, Adolf, Olga, and Paul in Haverstock Hill
May 28. "Turbiro" lunch with Adolf, Paul, Schmitt, and Mr. Hughes. In the evening, Hampstead Heath with Dr. Oscar and Louie271
May 29. In the morning, with David to Brondesbury. In the afternoon with Paul. We dined at Simonis’s in Lordship Lane. [Met] Frau Jäger in Lordship Lane.
May 30. In the morning, to Nottingham. Lunch with Paul Meyer,272 Cäcilie, Alice,273 [the] Hambers,274 Lieschen. In the evening, to Manchester.
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269 A hotel-spa, also known as the Wemyss Bay Hydropathic Establishment.
270 A popular Austrian a cappella group founded by Karl Udel (1844-1927).
271 Oscar's wife was Louisa “Louie” Holdsworth (Pilsley) Sampson.
272 Associated with Simon May & Co. in 1911 Nottingham directory. Managing partner in Simon May & Co., Nottingham lace manufacturer.
273 Alice Hamel (b. 1866).
274 Heinrich Hamburger and his wife Caroline (Carrie) Hamel, Cäcilie Hamelʼs daughter. Between 1901 and 1910, they changed their name to Hamber. May 31. Manchester Grand Hotel: Brooks, Walmsley, Barton, Stringer, Macpherson, etc. until June 3. Through Wales to Holyhead-Kingstown275 to Bray at Dublin.
June 4. Dublin Phoenix Park Polo
June 5. Afternoon from Bray-Dublin to Belfast.
June 6. J.N. Richardson Sons & Owden Ltd., McCracken.276 In the evening, to Glasgow on the Redbreast.
June 7. Glasgow, North British Station Hotel. Dinner with Schoelles, Helensburgh, Rommele, Rottenburg, Hurl, Frederick Moir.277
June 8. Dinner with Edward McBean, 23 Kensington Gate.
June 9. Dinner at Fred Moir’s with Frau Leip, Frau Emma Kiep, Frau Schmidt.
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June 10. In the morning via Gourock on the Columba to Ardishaig. Cattle show in Lochgilphead. Dinner with Fleming and the judges.
June 11. Via the Crinan Canal and Kilmartin to Kilchoan. Fleming, Frances Mrs. Herbertson and Margaret H.
June 14. Via Loch Melfort, coach to Oban, then to Colander. [Stayed at the] Dreadnought Hotel.
275 A ferry port south of Dublin and across from Holyhead; renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1921.
276 From 1910 Belfast directory: Richardson, J. N., Sons, & Owden, Ltd., Linen Manufacturers, Merchants and Bleachers, Donegall Square North; Store and Packing Case Making Shop, 15 Brunswick Street; Directors - J. N. Richardson, T. W. Richardson, C. H. Richardson (Chairman), Walter L. Wheeler, T. Macgregor Greer, Joshua Pim; Managing Directors, R. T. Scott, John Smyth, W. Malcolm Pim, Wm. McKean, and T. W. P. Cranage and McCracken, Wm., linen merchant, Marathon, Marlborough Park.
277 C.H. Roemmele a member of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, recommends John Fleming of 1 Lynedoch Terrace, Glasgow- Proceedings, 1910; George F. Schoelles a Commission Merchant with A.G. Paterson & Co. Helensburgh. Glasgow P.O. Directory for 1911-12; Peter and Mark Hurll Ltd. were brick manufacturers op cit. June 15. Glasgow. Fred Moir picked [me] up for lunch, then by motor[car] to Bearsden. Visit from Gordon and William Fleming (twins); then we visited Mrs. Ethel Wylie at Bute Gardens [Glasgow]. [At] 4 o’clock, to Leith.
[At] 8 o’clock, on the Vienna with Captain Brown to Hamburg.
At 10 o’clock in the morning [on the] 17th, in Hamburg.
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Visit from Adolf Hildesheim in August.
Fleming and son October 2-4.
Macpherson October 19.
Henry Hay October 20.
With Hay on October 22 to Berlin in the Hotel de Russie.
On the 25th, to Hannover [at the] Hotel Kastens.
On the evening of the 26th, back in Hamburg.
On November 10 in the morning with Martha and Therese through Warnemünde-Gjedser to Kopenhagen [at the] Hotel Dagmar.
On the 11th at 3 o’clock, [the] wedding of Frank and Helga Kongsted Petersen in the church at Ordrup. About 6 o’clock, wedding dinner in the Strand Hotel, Klampenborg. (Kongsteds, Andresen, Ryom, Jensen, Hehs.) Jensen’s Palads Hotel, Kopenhagen. On the 12th, back through Gjedser.
1911
Feb. 8. Visit from Fleming.
February 15. Visit from McCracken
July 16-17. Visit from Fleming.
July 17. To Suderode: Visited Therese. [July] 18. With Therese to Ballenstedt--Kieps’ [residence].
[July] 19. With Therese to [the] Bergtheater at Thale (Wintermärchen).
July 19-21. At Johannes Kiep’s residence, Ballenstedt.
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1911 continuation
July 21-22. Bad Nenndorf, visited Dr. Wiengreen and his wife.
August 20, Sunday. Birth of son Frank’s namesake Herbert James.
September 11-13. Visit from David and Adolf.
[September] 17. Visit from Paul Rottenburg and Francis.
[September] 21. Marriage of Frances Fleming/Mrs. Herbertson.
Sunday, August 13. Death of Ida Lipman.
October 6. To Hannover (Continental)
October 6. to Cassel, Hotel Royal
October 7 early to Wilhelmshöhe.
October 7. To Coblentz, where I met with Brown Fleming at 4:30. Hotel zum Riesen.
October 8, Sunday by train to Cochem, Union Hotel. Excursion in the mountains.
October 9. Bulag-Alf, splendid trip to Bad Bestrich then by train. Klein Hotel.
October 9. Berncastel-Cues, Hotel 3 Könige, through Eskirch, Trarbach, Cröv, Uerzig, Rachtig, Zeltingen, etc.
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October 10. Through Wengersohr to Trier (Hotel Porta Nigra). Trip around the city. In the evening in the cinema “Trier Celebration Parade [for the] 100th birthday of Empress Augusta.”278
[October] 11. To Luxemburg, Grand Hotel Brasseur, trip around the city.
[October] 11. To Cologne, Hotel Terminus.
[October] 12. Fleming to Bremen, I back to Hamburg.
November. Johannes Kiep in Hamburg.
December 21. Engagement of my granddaughter Elisabeth Dagmar Hugo with Dr. Juris Erwin Garvens.
1912
Sunday, January 6. With Seegen in Kiel. Diedrichsdorf and Friedrichsort.
January 31. Visit from Fleming.
April 15-16. Fleming died. 279 W.E. Fleming in Hamburg.
[TOUR OF SAXONY 1912]
June 19-26. Visit Kiep House at Ballenstedt in the Harz.
Excursion via Gernerode to Alexisbad, Mägdesprung, [the] Sternhaus280, Alexanderweg.
278 A film by pioneer Trier filmmaker Peter Marzen. See “Trierer Kinogeschichte” http://www.uni-trier.de/ index.php?id=23575:
Historischer Festzug am Kornblumentag in Trier 8. Oktober 1911, Länge unbekannt, [Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv (Nitratpositiv), unter dem Übernahmetitel Kaiserin Augusta-100-Jahrfeier verbunden mit Kornblumentag in Trier am Sonntag, den 8. Oktober 1911]
Quellen: Inserate, Trierischer Volksfreund, 11., 16. und 17.10.1911; Artikel: Trierischer Volksfreund, 7.10.1911: "Der historische Festzug wird auch von dem Inhaber des Central-Thaters, Herrn Peter Marzen, an zwei verschiedenen Stellen aufgenommen und nachher im Bilde vorgeführt werden.”
279 See probate record for Ebenezer B Fleming of Brown Fleming Ltd. Glasgow
280 http://www.sternhaus-harz.de/index.html The Gegenstein [rock formations], Castle Roseburg “Sehring,”281 through Lumpenstieg, Klopstockhöhe, Falken, Falkenstein, Meisdorf
Through Meiseberg, Selkemühle, the castle ruins, to Anhalt.
Quedlinburg: Rathaus Museum, Schlosskirche, Gruft, Treasure Room,282 Klopfstock’s house, Saatenfelder.
July 13. With Therese on the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria to Southampton.
July 14-16. London: Hampton Court, Richmond.
July 17. To Nottingham (flower show). Therese to Burton Joyce. 283
July 18-19. Midland Hotel, Manchester.
[July] 18, evening, at Macpherson’s, Hernehill M/C
[July] 19, evening, in Glasgow.
[July] 20, Kilcreggan, Cove, Barbour Cemetery (Fleming’s grave), Rahane, Helensburgh.
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July 21. Glasgow. Dinner at Mrs. C. Kiep’s, Zimmerman and his wife. In the evening, at W.E. Fleming’s, Melford House, Bearsden (via Killermont).
July 22. Dinner at C. Mackay’s [at] “Belview” [in] Dumbreck.284
July 23. Luncheon with Macbean.
July 24. Luncheon with G. Schoelles, Jr. (Miss Nichols) Went back in the evening on the Vienna.
281 Roseburg is a recreated medieval castle built in 1908 by the architect Bernhard Sehring on the former site of castle Rudolphsburg. http://www.harzlife.de/harzrand/rose.html
282 http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/03/arts/letters-show-thief-knew-value-of-the-quedlinburg- treasures.html
283 In Nottinghamshire.
284 The whisky merchant Charles Mackayʼs home in Dumbreck was “Bellevue.” July 26. Arrived in Hamburg.
August 22-24. Visit [from] Will Clark, Lieschen and Gracie (Atlantic [Hotel])
October. V.P. de Masini of T.B.L. Company, Ltd.285
October. William Fleming and R. Herbertson.
1913
January 14. Marriage of our granddaughter Elisabeth Dagmar Hugo with Dr. Erwin Garvens.
January 29. Frank and Helga’s daughter Inga Thyra Jeanette was born.
March 13. Sailed on the City of Bradford through Grimsby and Sheffield to
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Nottingham. Same place Saturday and Sunday March 15-16. On the evening of the 16th at the Midlands Hotel, Manchester.
Monday and Tuesday [March] 17-18 with Macpherson [at] Herne Villa. Wednesday [the] 19th via Sheffield [and] Grimsby on the Immingham to Hamburg. Back on Friday the 21st.
Monday, May 26th. To Castle Ballenstedt. Until Sunday, June 1 at the Kiep house (Halberstad-Huysburg with Max).
Sunday, June 1. Through Gernrode, Alexisbad, Eisfelder, Thalmühle, Sorge, Braunlage, by auto to Andreusberg, by train to Lauterberg, Scharzfeld, Herberg, Northeim, Carlshafen ([stopped at the inn] Zum Schwan).
Monday, June 2. By steamer on the Weser [from] Carlshafen [to] Hameln. By train [to] Hannover. Tuesday, June 3, arbitration regarding H. Meyer & Co. Royal Railroad toward Hannover. In the evening back to Hamburg.
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285 Tootal Broadhurst & Lee, Ltd. August 2. With F.W. Weise by train to Egestorf. On foot to Döhle, Wiesede, Heidenmann, Totengrund, Steingrund, Heidethal, Niederhaverbeck, Einem, Ehrhorn, and Wintermoor. Back by train.
1914
April. Visit from Hermann and Gerda Hildesheim from Leeds.
June 16-18. Visit from W.E. Fleming
June 22. To Ballenstedt.
June 23. By auto with Johannes Kiep and his wife.
Berthold Stülcken286 and his wife, Anna, to Mädchensprung, [drawing of Josephskreuz] Josefshöhe, Harzgerode, Stollberg, Rottleberrode, Kelbra, Rossla, visited the Kyffhäuser287 [drawing] in Thüringen, [the] Goldene Aue288, back the same way.
June 24. Hubertushöhe, Parkgarten, Schlosspark.
Juni 25. Felsenkeller and billiards with General Balen und Exellenz Johannes Schröder.
Juni 26 By Auto through Gernrode, Suderode, Friedrichsbram to Hexentanzplatz. Kiep, his wife, Frau Stülcken, Frau von Petersdorf.
Juni 27. Über Magdeburg, Stendal,
286 Berthold Pickenpack STÜLCKEN Occupation Kaufmann
Birth 11. September 1854 Hamburg-Altona Baptism 29. October 1854 Hamburg-Altona
ResidenceHamburg-Altona Breitenstrasse 115
Parents Hinrich Caspar STÜLCKEN; Auguste Louise Dorothea BASSEN
Spouse 26. May 1883 Hamburg Anne Margarethe KIEP son: 16. November 1892 Max Barthold STÜLCKEN ♂
287 The Kyffhäuser is a mountain range near Thüringen, the site of a monument built there 1890-1896 honoring Kaiser Wilhelm I. The diary contains a sketch of the monument, the third largest monument in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyffh%C3%A4user_Monument
288 A meadow in the Thüringen area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldene_Aue [page]
Uelzen with Frau Stülcken to Hamburg. (Intermezzo Magdeburg-Buckau)
Outbreak of war on August 3.
1915
April 29. Death of our dear son Albert Heinrich.
May 19 to Ballenstedt until May 29. Privy councillor Paul Hossfeld with his wife and daughter Gretchen. General Director Lechner and his wife, Lt. Otto Kiep. Visit in Wetterstedt at the home of Frau Ida Westphal, [and her] child Dorothea Ursula{?}
October to the beginning of November. I helped with purchase of Christmas packages for the troops.
Anfang November. As support for Konsul Oscar van der Briele from Glasgow of the Deputation for Commerce, Shipping, and Trade.
1916
April 6. I received the first orders as an independent person. Concerning compulsorily managed diet, 1916 was the worst of all war years: Mainly turnips.
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On September 29 our dear daughter Therese Jeanette died of a lung embolism.289
1918
289 The cause of death resembles a symptom of Spanish flu, which did not strike Europe until 1918. Olaf Ryom states that Therese was an English teacher in China. In 1917, German citizens were being expelled from China due to wartime alliances between the Chinese and English. Deaths identified with the Spanish flu were first recorded in northwest China in November, 1917. http:// news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science- health/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=2015012_invitation_ro_all 1919
Mrs. Matthiessen, Helga’s mother, in Hamburg (December 25 at Frank’s).
1920
This grandmother (on the mother’s side) took our common grandson Herbert with her via New York and Pittsburg to Seattle County, Washington, USA. She died unfortunately on December 25, 1920 (Kopfrose290).
1921
On January 10, my dear sister Cäcilie died in Nottingham
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On April 4, on his 52nd anniversary, my brother Hermann died in Brondesbury, London, 82 years old.
In May, Johannes Kiep from Ballenstedt visited us. His nephew Roland Kiep died a few weeks before in Hull.
Our grandson Herbert Hildesheim moved with his aunt Ella from Seattle to Sitka, capital of Alaska.
Paul Home (Hildesheim) from Toronto, in London June-July.
August 4. Visit from Hermann Hilton, his wife Gerda, and Ingrid Warburg.
September Olga and Adolph.
November 15-17 Paul Meyer291 from Nottingham.
1923
290 A cellulitis infection on the head
291 [per city directory, associated with Simon May & Co.] In May, a visit from George Schölles Jr. I went to Blankenese with him and F.W. Weise.
September 15. Agreement with Ludwig Mylius.
October 22. Birthday of my brother David. Ninety years [old].
1924
From the beginning of December 1923 into mid-March 1924, we had, almost without letup, freezing weather that wasn’t healthy for my wife. In the 76th year of her life, she grew weaker daily. Her heart no longer worked correctly. Thus she became bedridden about mid-February. Nor could Dr. Wilkens help her much, so she died, inspite of Martha’s careful nursing
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March 8-11. Walter Levenz visited from Nottingham.
On March 20 a cataract operation on my right eye by Dr. Otto Beselin took place in the Ernst Clinic, with --thank God!-- complete success. On April 2 I returned home.
On April 9, my 79th birthday, my longtime friend Albert Hermann Harms died, 67 years old.
On April 14,
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June 27-July 1. Vist from John McIlraith, of Whyte & Mackay292, Glasgow.
292 The Glasgow whisky maker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_and_Mackay Wednesday, October 1. I went to Southampton with Director Robert Eisenmeier (49) of J.P. Bemberg A.G.293 (Krefeld, Barmen, Augsburg) on the Royal Mail Steamer Orduña294. (12 hours--fog and a sandbank at Brunsbüttel.)
Southampton at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 3. South Western Station Hotel.
Saturday October 4, Midland Hotel i.e. St. Pancras Station, London. 295
3 p.m. we travel with Adolph to Wembley for the exhibition of Courtauld’s Art Silks296. Saturday, October 5, to the Thames Embankment and the obelisk297, dinner at Waterloo Station, then went by train to Woking. Adolph and Evelyn picked us up in an auto at the station. By auto through a part of Surrey, 5 o’clock tea with Winnie.
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6:43 p.m. back by train. Monday October 6, [with] Adolph. [We went to] 4 Cullum Street, where we looked for Simonis and W.E. Fleming without success. Then to Grafton & Co., i.e., Frank Hamel298, vis-a-vis the British Museum.
12:20 trip to Manchester. Alice Hamel came to the train. In the Midland Hotel at 4:25 p.m.
October 7. At J.P. Craven & Co., Ltd., MfC., Mr. Rame, Mr. Craven. 11:00 a.m. with T.B.L. Co., Ltd.
293 A textile manufacturer. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Bemberg
294 R.M.S. Orduña: http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/rmspb1.htm
295 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8377950/Inside-Londons-lost-landmark-the-St-Pancras- Midland-Grand-hotel.html
296 A British silk manufacturer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtaulds
297 The London obelisk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needle
298 Florence “Frank” Hamel, daughter of Cäcilie Hamel, sister of Alice, was the proprietor of Grafton Co. bookshop and publisher, and authored many books on French society, aristocratic women and werewolves: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40772/40772-h/40772-h.htm
See obituary in Library World vol. 58, p. 153 (April 1957) [M___ u. Alfred Wyatt Smith, whom I brought to Sorau 16 years ago, in 1908.
Mr. Macpherson, Mr. Blair, Mr. Denby, Mr. Horner.
Luncheon with Macpherson at the Midland.
October 8 evening in the Hippodrome.
After T.B.L., then luncheon with Mr. Herbertson in the Midland.
Departed 3:18 p.m. to Harwich, arriving at 9:26. Via Archangel to the Hook of Holland.
October 9. Arrived at 5:30 a.m. Departed for Rotterdam.
To the Hotel Weimar at 5:20. Socialist Bernstein299.
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October 9. I.F. Dick & Co. Visited Mr. Meineke. (Eisenmeier-Kubler).
October 10. Left Rotterdam station. Eisenmeier 7:07 a.m.
I was back in Hamburg at 7:26 a.m., [then to] Dammtor station [at] 6:26 p.m. (Osnabrück stolen then.)
September. Feliciano Ruiz (S. Mob Mazatlan
September. Cederbosch300 Mazatlan
October. On board the Orduña, Carlos Rosado Mazatlan.
1925
I celebrated my 80th birthday on April 9.
299 Possibly Eduard Bernstein, MP and Social Democrat leader, publisher of Vorwärts in Berlin and Vorwaarts in Rotterdam.
300 [Cederbosch is Western Union cablegram shorthand.] 8:15 a.m. Fräulein Sophie Bock301 sang two of the “Roses” lieder by Philipp zu Eulenburg.
9:00 a.m. [A] sweet snack, and I accept a gift. Present were: George and Dagmar [Hugo], Olga Hilton, Dr. Erwin Garvens and Elsie, Evelyn Hilton, Dr. Theo Tuch and Helene Porges [children of sister Caroline Hildesheim Tuch], Alice Hartvig [David’s daughter], Ernst Lipman, Helen Hartvig, Max Adolf Mylius, Karin Hartvig, Frank, Helga, Inga, Gertrud Hartvig.
I was congratulated during the course of the day and at 5 o’clock:
Anna Warburg, Mr. Dykes and his wife Ursula, Fräulein Gilbanks, Adolf Samson302 and his wife, Herr and Frau Martienson, and Frau Ursula
Welheim.
Frau Bock, Frau Kring, Sergeant Kring303. Gunther Kring as borrowed great-grandson.
Lisbeth & Helmut Gerson
Ella Nauen, Elise Wichern
At 7:30 p.m. supper at the Hugos,’ Schlüterstrasse 6. My whole family and Hermann, Alwine Dorrink, two Hiltons and four Hartvigs. The next
301 Sophie Bock is listed in the 1929 Hamburg theater directory as opera singer in the Hamburg Stadttheater.
302 Adolf Samson lived in the same apartment building as John Hildesheim. He was a merchant. His wife was Johanna Bauer Samson. His son, Siegfried Samson, an attorney in Hamburg, also lived at Hochallee 25 until his 1926 marriage. Siegfried was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1942 and died there in 1945 (http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/?MAIN_ID=7&BIO_ID=1010)
303 Remembered by Inga Robinson as a nice family. She said that Kring was sent to Poland in 1939 with the Hamburg police and when he came back would not talk about it. After the war it was disclosed that Hamburg police had participated in the massacre of Jews in Poland. morning Inga recited a congratulatory poem written by Erwin. All of the arrangements were superbly conducted by Martha.
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May 14-17 Eisenmeier and wife.
May 14. Rudolf Hofmann from Vienna.
May 22. Johannes Kiep and his wife Lollo, Mrs. Klaus Kiep. (Johannes Kiep will be 78 on March 25, 1926.)
May 24. Adolph & M. Wallace.
Oct. 21-22. R. R. Herbertson, Mr. Wynand Roessingh from Veenendaal304.
November 4-5. Mr. Rudolf Hofmann.
Unfortunately, on December 29, [Hofmann] died in his home, 25 Hohe Warte, Vienna.
1926
February. Visit from F.H. Williams from London.
February 28. 70th birthday of Ernest Lipman.
May 10. Johannes Kiep in Hamburg.
July 17. A.V. Bleackley.
August 5. Adolph.
August 11. Agreement with Jacob Oving.
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August 23. Hermann, Gerda, Peter and Silvia.
304 The Roessingh family owned a textile factory in Veenendaal, Netherlands. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Textielindustrie_in_Veenendaal. It was one of the factories that produced wax print (batik method) cotton for the African textile market exploited by Ebenezer Brown Fleming beginning in 1893. December 28. Lower back pain. “F”
December 31. Death of Miss Rebecca Gilbank.
1927
“F” until about January 22.
January 24-26. Visit from H.E. Jansen from Berlin (born in Krefeld).
February-March-April-May. Sciatica. April. Visit from Oskar Herf from Kreuznach305, 1873 member of the Glasgow German Club. “The loyal German eye.”306
May 25. Auto trip to the Pldeslac??? spa. 12 sulfur baths and massage.
June 30. By auto to Elend. Stayed at the St. Hubertus hotel. 10 hours auto.
July 14. Auto to Wernigerode to meet Johann and L. Kiep. Essence?? Hof.
305 This entry, for April, is at the end of the diary and follows the entries for May-July under the heading “1927.” It appears likely that the chronological sequence of the diary was broken, and that the event occurred in April 1927 rather than April 1928. John Hildesheim died in Hamburg on May 1, 1928 and Oscar Herf died in the U.S. in March 1928. Herf appears to have made his trip to Europe in 1927.
Oscar Herf was born in Germany in 1846, but became a citizen of England in 1870. He moved to St. Louis in 1884 and married Ida Haarstick that same year. The Herf and Frerichs Company he founded in 1886 became a large producer of ammonia products, and during World War I, it received a government contract to produce ammonia explosives and expanded to eight plants nationwide. (United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form.)
306 Apparently paraphrasing a popular patriotic German song. “Des Deutschen Vaterland” written in 1813 by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) to commemorate German victory that year against the French at Leipzig. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Deutschen_Vaterland)
Partial lyrics:
...Das ist des Deutschen Vaterland, Wo Eide schwört der Druck der Hand, Wo Treue hell vom Auge blitzt Und Liebe warm im Herzen sitzt. Das soll es sein! Das soll es sein! Das, wackrer Deutscher, nenne dein!
Translation:
...This is the German's fatherland, Where they swear oaths by the press of the hand, Where loyalty flashes bright from the eye And love sits warm in the heart. So shall it be! So shall it be! Gallant German, call that yours!
Perhaps the two of them sang the song together. In view of Herfʼs part in blowing up German troops, Johnʼs patriotic paraphrase is accidentally--or maybe intentionally--ironic. July 21. Fall with chair 6:30 in the morning. Severe contusions on the right side.
July 25. Arrival of Masseur Dunker.
July 27. Departure. By auto until Harzburg.
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July 27. Masseur Kossow takes over caregiving.
[John Hildesheim died on May 1, 1928, at 83.]
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