Gatherings From Spain

"Gatherings From Spain" from Ford Richard. English writer known for his travel books on Spain (1796-1858).

Excerpt from Gatherings From Spain Richard Ford, who, under the prosaic title of "A Handbook for Travellers in Spain," composed one of the most entrancing itineraries ever written in the English tongue, was born at Chelsea in the year 1796. He was the eldest son of a distinguished father, Sir Richard Ford, the friend of Pitt, and sometime Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, but better known perhaps as the Bow Street magistrate who created the mounted police force of London. Ford underwent the approved training of a young English gentleman at public school and university, took his degree at Oxford, qualified for the bar, and in 1824 married the beautiful Harriet Capel, daughter of the Earl of Essex. Six years later, the delicate state of his wife's health made residence in a warmer climate imperative, and in the autumn of 1830 he took ship for Gibraltar, accompanied by "three children and four women." After twenty days' sail the family reached port, and soon were housed at Seville for the winter. From thence and from Granada (where he was lodged amid the ruined splendours of the Alhambra) he made those journeyings through the length and breadth of the peninsula, which bore fruit in the pages of the "Handbook" and of the "Gatherings from Spain." Ford was an ideal traveller. In his home an atmosphere of art and literature had surrounded him, for his mother. Lady Ford, was an excellent amateur painter, a lover of pictures, and of cultivated and catholic tastes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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