Old Letters and Documents, Volume VIII, 1910, 1926

Letters, European trips 1910 (Katherine and Jamie Caperton) and 1926 (Katherine). (Approximately 88 pieces) Items of note: Katherine Caperton letters to her family (Jamie, Paul, and Caperton, Minerva, etc.) sailed on the Italian liner Columbo (built in 1917) on May 19. She wrote letters from Rome (June 4-14), from Nice (June 20), Paris (June 23-July 8), from London (July 11-26, Aug. 2), from Oxford (July 29), From Bath (Aug. 5), From Exeter (Aug. 8) and from the S.S. Leviathan (United States Lines formerly the German ship Vaterland built in 1914) (Aug. 13-15). Correspondence includes East Kent booklet with photogravure scenes, a Southern Railway timetable from London to Charing, etc., July 18th and Aug. 1 Westminster Abbey religious service bulletins. Family and Colonial Dames Correspondence, 1926 Katherine and Jamie Caperton letters to Minerva Phelps Jennings, et al while on 1910 European trip--sailed on Italian ship Italia (letters May 27-28), Rome (June 5-9), Florence (June 11), Venice (June 19), Naples (June 20), Munich (July 1), Amsterdam (July 4), Brussells (July 10), and London (July 17). Also includes religious service bulletins from Metropolitan Tabernacle (London) and from the Cathedral Church of Christ (Canterbury, July 21, 1910). ALS. Katherine Caperton to her sister Minerva Phelps Jennings, "Woodlawn", June 17, 1900. Relays information that "Grandpa" Phelps passed away on June 15.