Description and expenses of a round trip between England and Geneva, Switzerland, July 7-October 4, 1819, via France and Italy. The initial party apparently consisted of the author and his mother, Elizabeth Gibbes (1760-1847) and father, Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), former Speaker of the House of Commons, who retired in 1817 and travelled to the continent for his health. Once in Switzerland they were joined at various times by Mrs. J. Brookes (see p. 137), Mrs. Markham, her son and 3 daughters, and Lieut. Cramer RN (p. 138), and Henry Wickham (p. 286). Cramer, Wickham and Markham were related through the marriage of William Wickham (1761-1840) to Eleonora Bertrand (d. 1836), daughter of Louis and Isabella Bertrand of Geneva. William Wickham and Philip Henry Abbot were both at Lincoln's Inn. The Abbot family seat was at Kidbrooke, near East Grinstead.
