Tolliss and Berger Family Tree

Staying with uncle Henry Wilmot Sitwell in 1871. Living 9,Bilton Road, Rugby 1881. 4 servants. Living Osborne RdPortsmouth 1891. 3 servants. Living Monks Kirby, Warwickshire1901. 4 servantsThe whole of the letter, one of a collection in t he PowlettPapers, describes his first visit to a Turkish bath in simpleunsophisticated language which is neither designed to makeconverts nor poke fun at customs unfamiliar to the intendedreader.Constantinople28 JanMy dear PapaI beg a thousand pardons for not thanking you beforefor yr letter, but I had so many to write to other members ofthefamily. I will describe a Turkish bath to you. First youenter a large hall full of Turks lying under canopies. Theyhave had n just had their baths and are drying. In you goup into the gallery and undress, they rap [sic] a towel roundyourmiddle and throw another over your shoulders, then you godown again, and boys bring you pattens to wear over the hotmarble these lead you into a still hotter room, where they takethetowels off, but this is not the bath, you then go into the bathroom where the heat nearly suffocates you. You see no water,like an English bath, you hear a great noise which is the Turksbellowing for Mahomed. There is a part raised like a terracewere [sic] you lie and get scrubbed. Then you go into a ringwhere there are three marble vases over which is a hot and coldwatertap. You can therefore have the water as hot or cold as youlike,also there is a copper saucer with which you throw the waterover.yrself. All this time you are in a heavy perspiration and feeldisposed to go to sleep. The boys then come and rub you withhorse hair rubbers which clean you most effectually They thenbringthings made of sheeps wool which they soap and soap you allover,then they leave you to yourself.I amused myself with throwing water over Seymour and rollingon the warm marble. Then went out and had dry towels rappedround our head like a turban and lay under a canopy anddrunk coffee and lemonade and those who liked smoking take theirChibouge, until they are dry and then dress, and go to thedoor and pay 2/6 we found our horses waiting for us it was poorwork for we cd not get a clear path for gallop the streets areso narrow and crowded.Ever yr affec A.T.P.