This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from the SS Medway sailing from Plymouth to Barbados. It covers the period 1st-10th December 1889. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/medway_december1889/

This is a collection of travel letters written by the textile merchant John (Jack) McCaldin Loewenthal, known as JMcC, to his mother Jane at their home in Lennoxvale, Belfast, between 1889 and 1895. They were written during his journeys to South America and the West Indies, where he was securing commercial contracts while representing the firm in…[Read more]

This letter to Jane McCully contains a poem sent by the linen merchant Julius Loewenthal to his bride to be and is marked with the date 10th November 1854. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/front-matter/epigraph/