Travel accounts recorded by an independent, unmarried woman who toured the world during the Victorian and Edwardian eras; regions visited include the United Kingdom, Europe and north Africa; extant journals document Adger's travels during the Summer of 1868, and three subsequent tours during the first decade of the 20th century (14 Dec. 1902 - 26 Sept. 1904; 14 Apr. - 5 Oct. 1906; and 17 May - 25 Sept. 1907). Entries discuss art and architecture, people, lodgings, and local history. The earliest volume, 4 May - 17 Aug. 1868, documents Adger's tour through Germany, several Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy with four female companions and a guide following seven months in Paris: "we are once more travelers seeking for enjoyment and profit and look forward to this Summer's tour with great interest and pleasure"; in Germany, she writes extensively of Munich, Dresden, and Berlin; as well as Vienna (Austria); and Venice (Italy). This volume includes several printed items from Germany and Austria: city map and illustration of Hotel du Nord near the cathedral in Cologne; small catalog brochure of F. Kaufman & Sohn of Dresden, illustrated with models of organs and pianos; and photograph of "Hotel de l'Europe" in Salzburg, Austria, retouched with images of fashionably-dressed pedestrians in foreground. During her travels of the 1900s, Miss Adger's niece, Lena, accompanied her; places discussed include Algeria, Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Sicily, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Tunisia. Adger's diary hints at life in Europe during the final years of the Belle Epoque prior to the upheaval of World War I. Writing from Madrid, Spain, on 20 Dec. 1902, Miss Adger reported "a good sight of the young King, Alfonso 13th, with his Mother and Sister as they drove out from a side entrance of the church where they attend service every Saturday afternoon.... Quite a crowd gathered round to see the royalty, but there was no enthusiasm all were quiet." A visit to Rome in Feb. and Mar. 1903 provided an opportunity to view the Jubilee marking the 25th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's coronation. During this same tour, Adger also described 1903 Bastille Day celebrations in Paris and later that year, an opera performance in Vienna attended by Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and King Leopold of Belgium. However, as the political situation of Europe began to change, so the second tour was marked by tensions in Paris on Labor Day, 1 May 1906, as Adger reports rumors of a Socialist uprising.
