Timmel and Rimmel, Or, Putnam and Stamboul

Résumé du livre

"Manuscript account done entirely in verse by American politician Samuel Sullivan Cox, with extensive notes by his wife Julia during their year-long tenure in Istanbul where Cox served as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire... The manuscript-scrapbook provides a humorous and detailed account of his experiences as the Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, a post he held in 1886, resigning after one year to return to Congress. The Cox's chose to illustrate the text with both comic illustrations taken from various children's literature as well as a selection of professional studio photographs taken and sold to Western tourists and visitors. Some of these have been captioned in comic verse by Cox... Cox's poem is marked throughout in red manuscript by his wife indicating where she has added her own notes at the end of the volume" --