MS 599 06 03
Reference code
MS 599 06 03
Title
Edward Hope Vere archive: Personal diary 1910-1912
Level
Item
Date
Jan 1910- Nov1912
Extent & medium
1 volume
Content description
Personal diary of Edward Hope Vere, describing his diplomatic work and leisure activities while on home leave in London and Scotland; his posting to Constantinople, including travel via Vienna, visit of the King of Bulgaria, Mar 1910; difficulties in Albania and Crete, visit to Therapia and Pera; cholera outbreak; ceremony of veneration of the Prophet's scarf at Dolmabahçe Palace; visits to Rhodes, Mersina, the Dardanelles, Smyrna, Adana, Tarsus, Cyprus, Larnaka, Tripoli, Baalbek, Beirut and Damascus, the Holy Carpet ceremony; visits to Haifa, Nablus, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaffa, return to Constantinople via Port Said, Alexandria and Athens; visit to Istanbul to see destruction of buildings by fire; activities of the Young Turks; visit to Broussa; return of Sultan from Macedonia; visit to Sweet Waters of Asia and to Beicos; fire at Istanbul; deteriorating relations between Turkey and Italy and declaration of war Sep 1911; leave at Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Wiesbaden, London, Scotland and return to Constantinople via Cologne, Wiesbaden and Vienna; Italian bombings at Beirut; fires in Constantinople; bombardment of the Dardanelles (18 Apr 1912); his transfer to Belgrade, May 1912 and return to Constantinople a month later, via Plevna, Sofia and Belgrade, Adrianople; earthquake; massacres in Bulgaria; murder of Armenians in Anatolia; mobilisation of Bulgarians, Greeks and Serbs; declaration of war by Montenegro, martial law proclaimed in Turkey; outbreak of war in October and deteriorating situation in November; arrival of Austrian warships
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