Hart, Ethel Mary
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Ethel Mary Hart
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1. Journal
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Hart, Ethel Mary
Dates of creation: 1904-1905
Extent: 2 volumes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Hart, Ethel Mary
Language: English

Ethel Mary Hart

(1874 - 1957)


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1. Journal

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Purchased, 1994

1. Journal
SAD.880/10-SAD.880/11
1904 Dec 22 - 1905 Mar 5
Journal, in two volumes, kept by E.M. Hart during her first trip to Egypt with her parents, recording in some detail their travels to and from Egypt, impressions of life there and visits to the major sites of antiquities.
(Two typescript volumes, leather bound)

Between 1994 and 2023 this journal was misidentified as the work of Emily M. Hornby (1833-1906)

SAD.880/10/1-220
1904 Dec 22 - 1905 Jan 31
Volume one describes the journey by train to Marseilles (SAD.880/10/4-6); on board the SS Oriental to Port Said (SAD.880/10/6-12); impressions of Port Said (SAD.880/10/12-15); by train to Cairo (SAD.880/10/15-16); sight-seeing in Cairo including detailed descriptions of mosques and local architecture (SAD.880/10/17-55); visit to two mosques to watch a Dervish zikr (SAD.880/10/37-38); music for a Dervish chant (SAD.880/10/40); visit to the pyramids (SAD.880/10/44-51); Egyptian Museum (SAD.880/10/53-54)
Tour up the Nile to Aswan on the Rameses the Great
Visit to Memphis and the tombs of Mera and Thi, the Serapeum of the Bulls (SAD.880/10/60-64); description of a shaduf (SAD.880/10/67-69); rock temple of Pakht, tombs of Beni Hasan (SAD.880/10/74-77); Assiout (SAD.880/10/80-83); Keneh (SAD.880/10/86-98); Luxor and Karnak (SAD.880/10/99-126); Esna (SAD.880/10/126-128); Edfu (SAD.880/10/128-136); temple of Kom Ombos (SAD.880/10/136-137); Elephantine Island and Aswan (SAD.880/10/138-142)
On the Prince Abbas from Aswan to Khartoum
Kalabsheh (SAD.880/10/146-148); Dakkeh (SAD.880/10/149-150); Korosko (SAD.880/10/155-157); Abu Simbel (SAD.880/10/158-168); Wadi Halfa (SAD.880/10/168); by train from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum (SAD.880/10/169-175); at Khartoum, staying with Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Broun (SAD.880/10/175-198) and including dinner with Slatin Pasha (SAD.880/10/191-192), dinner party at the palace (SAD.880/10/194-195) and visit to the CMS Girls' School (SAD.880/10/196)
Return journey from Khartoum to Aswan
Return journey by train to Halfa, by boat (the Prince Abbas) to Shellal, by train to Aswan and boat (Rameses III) to Luxor (SAD.880/10/198-220); second cataract and rock of Abusir (SAD.880/10/201-204); Abu Simbel (SAD.880/10/204-206); Qasr Ibrim (SAD.880/10/207); Philae (SAD.880/10/210-212,216); and the Aswan dam (SAD.880/10/216-219)
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Digitised material for Journal kept by E.M. Hart during her first trip to Egypt Dec 22 1904 - 31 Jan 1905 - SAD.880/10/1-220
SAD.880/11/1-214
1905 Feb 1 - Mar 5
Volume two covers the second half of the return journey to Cairo and remainder of their stay in Cairo. including descriptions of Luxor and Karnak (SAD.880/11/2-50); race meeting at Luxor (SAD.880/11/22-24); by steamer to Cairo (SAD.880/11/50-76); excursion to Abydos (SAD.880/11/52-63); sight-seeing in Cairo and Heliopolis (SAD.880/11/77-195) including a description of the Khan el Khalil (SAD.880/11/85-90); Egyptian Museum, Cairo (SAD.880/11/112-124,140-169); visit to the pyramids and sphinx (SAD.880/11/125-140); the journey home on board the Caledonia (SAD.880/11/195-214)
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