Ima
and her brother, Mike, continue their European travels in the summer of 1910,
as recorded in her diary:
Thursday morning [Aug. 11] 10:20
Stratford. It was warm and
the town has not grown in my favor since 1907.
[On
her July 12, 1907 visit to Stratford, Ima had a cold, and wrote in her 1907
diary: Reach
S[tratford] sick, but walked to Trinity and out by the Avon- my only chance for
I spent July 13- Stratford-on-Avon in bed.]
We visited Shakespeare’s
birthplace and then his burial in the church. At the Golden Lion (starred in
1906 Baedeker)
[Ima’s tattered copy of this standard tourist guidebook is preserved in the
archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.] we had an insufficient and poor lunch @ 2/6 and in disgust with
everything returned to Warwick on the 2:08 train. That afternoon we read and
wrote. I reviewed “Kenilworth.” [Ima was a great reader. She knew
Sir
Walter Scott’s 1821 romantic historical novel, Kenilworth, and she was about to visit Kenilworth Castle.] After our delicious dinner, we walked
out to the bridge near the castle. It was some sort of a holiday--a brass band
was playing discords, and a happy, well-behaved crowd were running and pushing
the poor performers along.
Next:
A Visit to Kenilworth Castle
