Egypt

In 1867, Fiske and Barrett White, a cousin of Andrew Dickson White, toured Europe and went on to Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, which Fiske described in letters home. Fiske would continue to be fascinated by Egypt, traveling and writing about the Egyptian alphabet and the Egyptian postal service. In 1880, he and Jennie went to Egypt on their honeymoon. In 1888, Andrew Dickson White invited Fiske to accompany him to Egypt. They arrived in January 1889, taking a “special steamer,” the Sethi for a journey of five weeks on the Nile. They stayed in Egypt for three months, viewing antiquities, talking with various cultural officials, and buying books and photographs for Cornell’s Library and their personal collections.

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