Book Title: John McCaldin Loewenthal: Letters Home from a Victorian Commercial Traveller, 1889 – 1895

Authors: Michelle Fink and Robert Boyd

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Book Description: This is a collection of travel letters written by the textile merchant John (Jack) McCaldin Loewenthal, known as JMcC, to his mother Jane at their home in Lennoxvale, Belfast, between 1889 and 1895. They were written during his journeys to South America and the West Indies, where he was securing commercial contracts while representing the firm in which his father was a partner.

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This is a collection of travel letters written by the textile merchant John (Jack) McCaldin Loewenthal, known as JMcC, to his mother Jane at their home in Lennoxvale, Belfast, between 1889 and 1895. They were written during his journeys to South America and the West Indies, where he was securing commercial contracts, whilst representing the firm “Moore and Weinberg”, Linen and Jute traders, based in Dundee and Belfast, in which his father Julius Loewenthal was a senior partner. The reason these letters survived for posterity is that he had specifically asked his mother to keep them as a record of his travels, for him to look back on after his return home to Belfast. The letters are a diary-like account of his travels and travel impressions, also containing little anecdotes, as well as more personal interactions with his mother to do with family and friends in Belfast and Dundee, as well as social chit chat. They were part of a regular correspondence between him and Jane.

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Michelle Fink and Robert Boyd

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John McCaldin Loewenthal: Letters Home from a Victorian Commercial Traveller, 1889 - 1895 Copyright © 2022 by Michelle Fink, Robert Boyd, Sarah Watkinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Travel writing

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Title
John McCaldin Loewenthal: Letters Home from a Victorian Commercial Traveller, 1889 – 1895
Authors
Michelle Fink and Robert Boyd
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

John McCaldin Loewenthal: Letters Home from a Victorian Commercial Traveller, 1889 - 1895 Copyright © 2022 by Michelle Fink, Robert Boyd, Sarah Watkinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

The work is copyright 2022 by Michelle Fink, Robert Boyd, and Sarah Watkinson. This is version 1.0.

It is available in the following editions:

ISBN 979-8-9854286-1-2 (Ebook)

ISBN 979-8-9854286-0-5 (Paper)

Online at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/

Downloadable PDF on Humanities Commons: http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/2y1n-xr59

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022930300

Published by Moore & Weinberg, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

To contact the publisher, visit https://mooreweinberg.com/

Note: The formatting of the transcripts mirrors the formatting of the original letters to the degree possible. An image of each letter is linked above the transcript. The complete set of images can be found at https://hcommons.org/groups/loewenthal-letters-project/  The originals of the images shown in the book are assumed to be in the Public Domain on account of their age, but the publisher invites any potential rightsholders to be in contact via the details found on its website.

Primary Subject
Travel writing
Additional Subject(s)
History of specific companies / corporate history, Economic history, Local and family history, nostalgia
Publisher
Moore & Weinberg
Publication Date
January 24, 2022