Isaac P. Hunt kept this travel journal to record his and his wife Edith's transatlantic steamship crossing on the Cunard liner R.M.S. Servia, their travels in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries, and their return to New York on the R.M.S. Aurania, 14 June-17 August 1890. Hunt records many comments and descriptions--informed by a wide range of literary and historical readings--of their daily sightseeing excursions while on the Grand Tour. They visit friends in England, tour the standard cultural sites plus synagogues, attend theatrical and music hall performances, put flowers on Charles Dickens's grave; in Paris, he writes about the palaces and galleries they toured during the day and the evening entertainment at the opera and Moulin Rouge. In Germany, he writes about the historical and literary associations with the architecturally significant buildings, and they tour Strasburg, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Weisbaden, and Cologne. In the Low Countries, they visit Brussels, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague to see friends, Amsterdam's diamond cutting district, the Hague's Jewish quarter, and a fishing village. They spend their final two weeks back in London and the surrounding area where they visit art museums, concert halls, Stratford-on-Avon, and Liverpool from where they sail for home. Laid in are hotel cards, a German pamphlet guide (Führer durch den Palmengarten in Frankfurt a. M.) and an 1894 Philadelphia Theater program for the play, Rip Van Winkle, starring Jay and Phil Hunt.
