Letters From Constantinople (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Letters From Constantinople

Saw many things under the most favourable circumstances, being accompanied everywhere during the three months of our stay by one of the Palace aides-de-camp, whose Imperial uniform gained us access to places which no amount of bakshish would have opened to us. The idea of any danger, when passing along the crowded streets of Stambul, or visiting any of the Mosques, or the more desolate and deserted memorials of the Byzantine Empire, never crossed our minds, and we left with an earnest desire to return. After the events of last year that desire will hardly be realized, nor is it likely now that the chief object I had in view in publishing these letters will be fulfilled, and that others will be persuaded by them to spend their holidays in the soft air and the lovely scenes of the Bosphorus.

It will be seen that a few of the letters are written by my husband.

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Excerpt from Letters From Constantinople

These letters are enlarged from letters I wrote three years ago, during the bright days I enjoyed at Constantinople. I went there with my husband, who required change and rest, to see our son, who was then, and still is, Secretary of Embassy there. Though our sons letters had led us to expect much, the extreme loveliness of the Bosphorus, and the interest of the historical monuments in and around Constantinople, took us completely by surprise. We were received with the greatest kindness by Sir Clare Ford, our Ambassador, and by all the members of the British Embassy. H.M. the Sultan bestowed on us marks of his Imperial favour such as had seldom before been bestowed on mere travellers.

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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.