Alexander Lindsay Sources
Alexander Lindsay’s Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land
(1838–39) was composed from genuine travel letters written during
his 1837–38 journey through Egypt, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, and
Syria, later edited for publication. Additional material was drawn
from the journal of his travelling companion George Ramsay.
Important complementary sources include contemporaneous travel
accounts, missionary reports, and early nineteenth-century
topographical literature that circulated widely in Britain. These
provide the broader descriptive and historical context that shaped
Lindsay’s narrative and informed his observations.