tea

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Refreshing drink made of botanicals steeped in hot or boiling water.

Most commonly brewed from the leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.

Traveljournal 1814

Dover–London, 21–22 August 1814
The British Museum, pencils and Shakespeare, 23 August 1814
Business visits in Cheapside and the Strand, 25 August 1814
James Watt gives a tour of his plant and and an invitation to lunch, 28 August 1814
File manufactory and a trip to Newcastle-under-Lyme, 31 August 1814
Leeds, 4 September 1814
Exploring the Black Country on horseback with James Watt, 29 August 1814

Traveljournal 1825

London–Birmingham, 11-12 June 1825
A novel beverage pump, 13 June 1825
Back in town, 23 June 1825
The country home of the Lee family, 24 June 1825
The country home of the Gott family, 27 June 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Visits on recommendations in London, 20 October 1825
Peruvian steel and a visit to Sanderson and Huntsman, 5 October 1827

Traveljournal 1845

Fischer visits the patent office, 23 July 1845
A soirée at Mr. Gott’s, 28 July 1845
Turton, Huntsman and Chinese tea, 1 August 1845

Traveljournal 1846

London–Derby, 25 October 1846
The Butterley Works and a highway robbery at Alfredton, 26 October 1846
A visit to the works of Cammell and Sanderson in Sheffield, 30 October 1846
Fischer loses his way in Sheffield, 31 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

Fischer’s business visits in Sheffield, 7 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: tea. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-9558, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — Tea and Melting Rolls (painting by Albert Anker, 1873)