This works is an account by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771 1843), traveller, classical scholar and friend of Sir Walter Scott, of his Grand Tour during the years 1794 6. His letters home were edited by G. E. Marindin (1841 1939) and published in 1914. In 1790 Morritt inherited the Rokeby estate, County Durham, and came into a considerable fortune. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he graduated in 1794, and soon afterwards set out for the continent. Visiting Constantinople, Troy, the Greek islands, Crete, Naples, Rome and Venice, Morritt developed a lifelong passion for European art...