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No Particular Hurry

BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN FINLAND 18301917

Tony Lurcock grew up in Kent, and studied English at University College, Oxford. He became lecturer in English at Helsinki University, and subsequently at bo Akademi. Returning to Oxford, he completed a D.Phil. thesis, and taught there, and in America, until his recent retirement. He is the author of Not So Barren or Uncultivated: British Travellers in Finland 17601830 (CB editions, 2010), and numerous review articles, mainly on eighteenth-century literature and on biography.

First published in 2013

by CB editions

146 Percy Road London w12 9ql

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Tony Lurcock, 2013

Front cover: Victor Westerholm (18601919), A View at Ruissalo ( Maisema Ruissalosta ), 1903. Oscar Huttunen Collection, Kuopio Art Museum

Tony Lurcock has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as author of this work

ISBN 9781909585096

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No Particular Hurry

BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN FINLAND

18301917

Tony Lurcock

Not being in any particular hurry, we lingered...

Mrs Alec Tweedie

... what demand is there for hurry or punctuality in places like Riehki or Teerl?

Rosalind Travers

MIDNIGHT HAVEN OF REST

Sketch by Mrs Alec Tweedie: frontispiece of the first edition of Through Finland in Carts (1897), showing all the necessaries and luxuries of Finnish humble life. Hanging between the roof beams are the round loaves described by so many travellers. (See pp.1567.)

Contents

Acknowledgements

Many people have given help and encouragement at different times and in different places, some of them long ago, some far away, and some both. In particular Silvester Mazzarella has read several versions over the years, and has, as ever, encouraged the whole enterprise, while on the home front Pontus has again contributed corrections, clarifications, and many insights and suggestions.

I thank Marjatta Bell for help with Russian War details; Jonathan Clark for producing the two maps of Finland; Larry Eldredge for deciphering certain words in the Evans ms; Eva Ennis for the loan of her precious Finland Bulletin ; Tim Griggs for editing out most of my favourite parts in the Introduction; Philip Grover, at the Pitt Rivers Museum, for assembling all of Arthur Evanss drawings of Finland for me to see; Kevin Hart for making my naval terminology shipshape; Diana Kaley for information about her grandmother Sylvia MacDougall; Bill Mead for sending me copies of useful articles; Gunnar Nystrm for information about the Julin family; Ilaria Perzia at the Ashmolean Museum for generous help with the ms of Evanss Journal; Pasi Sahlberg for giving me perspectives on Finnish education; Roger Sell for general encouragement and particular help; Katherine Turner for explaining when ladies are women; and Angela Wilson for the map of land.

I have consulted many books in the course of producing one, and they are listed in the bibliographies. I am particularly indebted to Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard, The British Assault on Finland : A Forgotten Naval War (1988).

Publication of this volume has been made possible by a grant from Konstsamfundet; thanks are due to Kaj-Gustaf Bergh, and also to Karl Grotenfelt for his help as an intermediary.

Any comments, corrections or additions would be welcomed by the author at 9 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK , or by email to .

Place names in Swedish and Finnish

Archaic Swedish spellings are in parentheses. Places which are mentioned only once are usually translated in the text. There are a few places, almost all in Lapland, which I have not been able to identify. In a book of this size it has not proved possible to provide a map which shows every small village and settlement, but they can easily be found of the website http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi. The site recognises only Finnish names.

Bjrneborg	Pori
Borg (Bergo)	Porvoo
Brahestad	Raahe
Ekens (Eckness)	Tammisaari
Enare	Inari
Enontekis	Enonteki
Flisn	Seurasaari
Fredrikshamn	Hamina
GamlaKarleby	Kokkola
Hang	Hanko
Helsingfors	Helsinki
Kajana	Kajaani
Kexholm	Kkisalmi
Kristinestad	Kristiinankaupunki
Lovisa (Louisa)	Loviisa
Nykarleby	Uusikaarlepyy
Nyslott	Savonlinna
Nystad	Uusikaupunki
Pyttis	Pyht
Raumo	Rauma
Seskar	Seiskari
Sippo	Sibbo
Sordavala	Sortavala
Sveaborg	Suomenlinna
Tammerfors (Tamerfers)	Tampere
Tavastehus	Hmeenlinna
Torne	Tornio
Uleborg	Oulu
Urdiala	Urjala
Vasa	Vaasa
Vyborg	Viipuri
bo	Turku
vertorne	Ylitornio

Beyond Finland

Reval	Tallinn
Nargon (Nargen)	Naissaar

Map from Sylvia MacDougall [Paul Waineman], A Summer Tour in Finland , 1908, with place names in Swedish

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