Rae, W. Fraser, The Business of Travel: A Fifty Years Record of Progress, London, Thos. Cook & Son, 1891
Seaton, Derek, The Local Legacy of Thomas Cook, self-published in Botcheston, Leics, 1996
Stretton, Clement, The History of the Midland Railway, London, Methuen, 1901
Swinglehurst, Edmund, Romantic Journey: The Story of Thomas Cook and Victorian Travel, London, Pica Editions, 1974
——, Cook’s Tours: The Story of Popular Travel, Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1982
Thomas, R.H.G., The Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Newcastle upon Tyne, A. Reid, 1915
Williams, R.A., The London & S.W. Railway, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1968
Main Sources of Thomas Cook Quotations
Testimonial to Mr T Cook of Leicester (September 1850)
‘Twenty-Six Years on the Rails’, appendix to Cook’s Scottish Tourist Practical Directory (1866, much of it reprinted from 1860)
‘Travelling Experiences’, Leisure Hour (1878)
A Retrospect of Forty Years (July 1881)
Temperance Jubilee Celebrations at Leicester and Market Harborough (November 1886)
‘My Own Memorial’, Memorial Cottages (May 1890)
Birthday Reminiscences (November 1891)
Articles in over a hundred issues of the Excursionist (1851–78)
Acknowledgements
This book is about journeys and it has been a long journey, made possible with the help of dozens of people – everywhere from Britain to Jerusalem, from Rome to Australia. A bouquet of thanks goes to my sister, Margaret Morrissey, in Brisbane, who gave me daily assistance. I could never have pulled all the strands together without the patient help of Paul Smith, the archivist at the Cook Archives in Peterborough. Robert Ingle, who wrote an earlier biography, spared me much time in Leicester and in London, steering me through many complexities. Piers Brendon, who wrote a significant book on the firm Thomas Cook, also helped and gave me much insight, as did Edmund Swinglehurst, a former archivist at Thomas Cook. Harry Hastings, who made the BBC film in 1976, kindly lent me the script. In Melbourne itself I was helped by the Baptist minister, the Revd J. Birnie, Richard Heath and Howard Usher, the archivist at Melbourne Hall. In Rome, Father Alexander Lucie-Smith was tireless in following the footsteps of Cook, as was Dave Hodgdon, the Pastor of the Rome Baptist Church at Piazza Luciano, and his wife, Cathy. Nonstop emails full of history and guidance came from Helen Crutch, the wife of the former minister. In Jerusalem, while staying at the guest house attached to Christ Church in old Jerusalem, just near the Jaffa Gate, where Thomas Cook had his first office, I was helped by the Revd Neil Cohen and the untiring Kelvin Crombie and David Pileggi.
There is, alas, not room to list all the people who helped and guided me on this long trail, but special thanks also go to Jane Dorrell and Maureen Sherriff, who read through different versions of the manuscript; to Antonia Eliot, who runs the Ernest Cook Trust, and to Mavis Batey, George Carter, Joelle Fleming, Penny Hart, George Haynes, Caroline Lockhart, Elizabeth Muirhead, Tom Pocock, Miriam Rothschild, Ross Steele, Barry Tobin and Alan Ventress. I especially thank Guy Penman at the London Library, who gave me much help. As always, the happiest times while researching and writing this book have been in libraries or in bookshops. I am grateful to the State Library of New South Wales, the British Library in London, especially the staff in the Reading Room, where I spent weeks writing and researching, my local library, the Chelsea Library, the library at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and Brent Elliott at the Royal Horticultural Library.
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