Describes events, stopovers in Port Said, Ismailia, Aden, Singapore, Penang, Hong Kong, Shanghai (and stay with American missionary family called Syle), Whampoa, Canton, and return voyage between 14 March - 26 September 1871 (131 pages used)

Enclosures:

a) Account (28 pages) of a voyage to South Africa [by Isabella Davis?]

b) Handwritten letter signed. [Isabella Davis?] to Fanny Davis, on board the SS Danube: departure from Madeira; details of voyage [to South Africa?]. Incomplete. 18 December 1872

c) Press cutting. Obituary of R. Holden Davis, brother of Fanny Davis, and founder of the United Alkali Company in Liverpool (died 14 March 1906)

d) Photograph of a swan

e) Handwritten letter signed. Isabella Davis, in Llandudno, to her mother: family news, 17 July 1867

f) Handwritten letter signed. Fanny Davis, in Liverpool, to her brother William: family news, undated

g) Handwritten letter signed. Fanny Davis, Mediterranean Sea, to her 'dearly - beloved relatives': the voyage; sea sickness, 28 March 1871

h) Handwritten letter signed. Fanny Davis, in Hong Kong, to her brother Richard (R. Holden Davis?): visits to Shanhai and Canton; stay with the Syles family. Incomplete. 23 June 1871

i) Handwritten letter signed. ? to Fanny Davis, undated

j) Handwritten letter signed. A.R. Davydson [cousin of Fanny Davis?], in London (?) to his mother: visit to the waxworks, undated

k) Handwritten letter signed. William Beveridge, Upholland Grammar School, Orrell Station, near Wigan to ?: 'Artie'; general election results, undated