Caperton, Katherine, 1910 Europe Trip

Contains a journal titled My Trip Abroad, handwritten notes and a small metal ringed notebook. The materials recount the trip that Mrs. Caperton took with Jamie and her mother, Mrs. Thomas Phelps. As she states in the opening entry in her journal, traveling abroad with family was one of Col. Caperton's dreams and after the tragedies they experienced in late 1908 and 1909 (death of her father and husband) she felt that a summer trip across Europe was deserving. The handwritten notes have a script written on the front of the original envelope that they were found in that reads "Notes of things I saw in London England, 1910." Just below is another script, dated 1919, that reads "Of interest to me + strange to say I can still decipher them." The smaller ringed notebook contains hard to read notes that are of little value to anyone who has not had extensive exposure to Mrs. Caperton's shorthand, however, the large journal appears to be the formal account that she recorded while abroad.