Today, we bid farewell to the Lamsons who have looked after us so admirably since our wedding on 1st June and, for some months, to New York. We are booked on the SS Ethiopa bound for Scotland where we will be spending some weeks exploring this fascinating country, its scenery, its customs and its folklore.
Our passage is set for twenty-two days instead of the usual nine because we will be disembarking at Moville, for Londonderry, and taking in a short tour of Northern Ireland before rejoining the Ethiopa on her next sailing through to Glasgow. This extra journey time is as well because I still have much work to do completing the introduction and the final proofs of "In South Africa with Buller", which has to be with my publishers in Boston by the 30th August.
Primarily, however, this is time for Mary and I to be together before settling in to the new home that my brother William has acquired for us in London ... and before I once again take up the task that fate seems to have set me of chronicling the lives and the experiences of those unfortunate souls suffering the impact of the intricate web of today's political decisions and military actions that are forming and moulding the history of tomorrow.
Our passage is set for twenty-two days instead of the usual nine because we will be disembarking at Moville, for Londonderry, and taking in a short tour of Northern Ireland before rejoining the Ethiopa on her next sailing through to Glasgow. This extra journey time is as well because I still have much work to do completing the introduction and the final proofs of "In South Africa with Buller", which has to be with my publishers in Boston by the 30th August.
Primarily, however, this is time for Mary and I to be together before settling in to the new home that my brother William has acquired for us in London ... and before I once again take up the task that fate seems to have set me of chronicling the lives and the experiences of those unfortunate souls suffering the impact of the intricate web of today's political decisions and military actions that are forming and moulding the history of tomorrow.
Booking for the SS Ethiopa - 4th June 1900
The SS Ethiopia Under Steam
Seamen working in the rain on the SS Ethiopia
(Musuem of the City of New York - Byron Company NY 1900)
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