BISHOP (Isabella Lucy, née Bird, 1831-1904, Traveller & Authoress)

Autograph Letter Signed in her married name to Miss La Touche saying that she is "truly sorry ... that I cannot go to Dundalk! I should so much have liked to have been among warm friends ... and to have seen something of Irish people with whom I am to make an address on Missions on a very special occasion at the Kensington Town Hall on the 12th and must reluctantly leave Dublin on the 11th after arriving on the 9th. Literally every day till the middle of July has some engagement of one sort or other and this sadly curtails my visit to Ireland. I think I ought to mention in view of your kind intentions that I am fighting some what of a losing battle ... with a serious malady and that I am scarcely equal to any social efforts ..." she ends by saying that she will rely on her to tell her the times of "trains and boats", 3 sides 8vo., 20 Earls Terrace, Kensington, London, 24th March

Isabella Bishop travelled from 1872 and visited America, Australia, China and many other countries. In November 1892, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. She was elected to membership of the Royal Photographic Society on 12 January 1897. Her final great journey took place in 1897, when she travelled up the Yangtze and Han rivers in China and Korea, respectively. Later still, she went to Morocco, where she travelled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan.

Item Date:  1898

Stock No:  38593