Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
023.009.11 |
Collection |
Robert Bowne Suckley (1856 - 1921) |
Title |
Correspondence: G. C. Dobbs, 1908-1911 |
Date |
1908 - 1911 |
Object Name |
Correspondence |
Scope & Content |
Fifty-four letters, postcards and telegrams written from various places in Europe, particularly Switzerland. Dobbs travels a lot, became a director of Continental Travel Limited (also uses Alpine Sports, Limited letterhead,) plays golf and arranges motor tours as part of his job. He reports on their mutual friends - Beauclerk, Reuss, Jabez - and of Caulfield's expertise on skis. [letter #7] July 4, 1908: A caricature in three sketches of "Messrs. Dobbs and Caulfield in their great combined skiing act." [#40] Jan. 29, 1911: Rates Caulfield's book as the "best exposition of the theory of skiing that has yet been published. " [LC04608] |
People |
Beauclerk, Algernon Caulfield, Vivian Dobbs, G. C. Reuss, J. Leonard Suckley, Robert Bowne, Sr. (1856-1921) |
Subjects |
Golf Health Skiing Tourist trade Travel |
Legal Status |
Property of Wilderstein Historic Site |