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Ref NoDEP/BGW/25
Acc No2013/38
TitleLetter from George William Balfour to his sister, Jane Balfour
Date5 Sep 1846
Description Of ItemWritten from Heidelberg, Germany. He writes that he hopes the report he wrote for Forbes may lead to a job; he declines Charles' offer of patronage; he will send a list of works he received from Dr Sigmund to pass on to C L R; he left Vienna, Austria-Hungary [Austria] by boat on the Danube in the company with the heir to the imperial throne; and of his journey via Linz, Traun, Ebensee, Ischl, Salzburg, Austria-Hungary [Austria] (visiting the tomb of Theophrastus Paraclesus whom he describes as 'the most renowned quack'), Berchtesgaden, Germany, Munich, Germany, Augsburg, Germany, Ratisbona [Regensburg] Germany, Nürnberg, Germany, Bamburg, Germany, Würzburg, Germany, Miltenberg, Germany, Eberbach, Germany, and then Heidelberg, Germany describing in detail sights along the way.
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