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- Cassandra Paul (BMC 2018) and Marianne Hansen
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- 2018 May 1
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Elaborate custom housing. Titled: The Spiritual Diary of Joseph Bean. February 1741 to January 1744. Every page filled with cramped script in ink. Sometimes difficult to decipher. Many passages crossed out by owner. Different papers used for each gathering, different paper quality and color noticable. Full transcript of diary available.
Physical Description1 volumes20 x 31.4 cm
Diary written in ink with entries dated January 2, 1871 through February 6, 1871. Front page: "Edward Dudley Liverpool England Jan 2nd 1871 VOL I: Jan 2nd 1871 to Feb 6th 1871." Following page: "diaries of Uncle Lawrence Dudley's father, Edward Dudley, Care Thomas H. Dudley U.S. Consul Liverpool -England-." Entries describe travels through England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Every page contains writing, most pages lined. Last page includes short list of clothing and a summmary of various dates.
Physical Description1 volumes11.1 x 17.7 cm
Diary written in ink with entries dated March 19, 1871 through May 28, 1871. Front page: "Edward Dudley, A.B. Camden, New Jersey." The following page: Edward Dudley Liverpool, England Volume III." Entries describe travels through Israel, Palestine, and Greece. Most pages contain writing, most pages lined.
Physical Description1 volumes19.5 x 12.7 cm
Pre-formatted agenda and diary with pre-dated pages for the year 1873. Most entries begin with recounting the weather. Written entries start January 1, 1873 through July 22, 1873. Includes an appendix with holidays, eclipses, royal family birthdays and a booklet with a "Special Address to our Subscribers; skeleton almanacs for 1873, 1874; Postal Regulations and Tables, a Commercial summary of the year 1871. Fairs, Markets, and Fast Days in Scotland/ An alphabetical index to the Public General Acts of Parliament passed during the late session; agenda and corrigenda to the 10th October, 1872, and an index to the tables and information contained in the office editions of the Diary." Includes a table to record sent letters. Blank lined pages. Includes section for tracking bills.
Physical Description1 volumes13.6 x 19.8 cm
Collection of loose pages, potentially torn from a notepad.
Physical Description1 volumes
Typewritten. Loose pages folded into booklet. One booklet per year.
Physical Description1 volumes
Travel diary focusing on a voyage to Iceland June 9 through September 11, 1931. Small envelope with eight photographs. Each photo labeled on back in pencil. Section of autographs. Fold out map of Europe and North America.
Physical Description1 volumes11 x 18 cm
Diary entries from December 23 1896 to May 7 1897. All entries dated and written in ink. Only one hand.
Physical Description1 volumes23.8 x 18.6 cm
Diary entries from April 22 1896 to December 23 1896. All entries dated and written in ink.
Physical Description1 volumes23.8 x 18.6 cm
Pages formatted into three sections, each section printed with date and day of the week. Entries filled in from January 1 1865 to January 31 1865, July 9 1865 to July 21 1865.
Physical Description1 volumes9 x 14.7 cm
Diary entries dated July to September 1766 or 1767. Table of "money paid" from October 11 to April 24. Table of "money received" from November 1766 to February 1767.
Physical Description1 volumes11.4 x 17.7 cm
Written entries dated March 23 1817 to July 6 1818. Guide titled "Illustration of the Common-Place Book" with written details and examples for hand-drawn page formats. Includes pasted papers and newspaper clippings.
Physical Description1 volumes12 x 18.5 cm
Journal entries written in ink. All entries dated. Most entries indicate books read.
Physical Description1 volumes25.6 x 20.8 cm
Entries dated March 29 1855 to June 26 1855. All entries dated. Some poems. Bill from Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar Square, James and Son.
Physical Description1 volumes13.8 x 19.1 cm
Entries dated June 27 1855 to July 16 1855. All entries dated. All entries written in ink. Entries describe travel through Italy. Piece of notepaper from Lynn's Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool with notes. Page removed from a catalog of books for sale. Postcard from Arthur Rogers to Seymour Adelman dated December 5 1955. Loose sheet with notes on both sides, titled John Keats.
Physical Description1 volumes13.5 x 19.4 cm
Diary entries undated. Many references to Boston and surrounding area. Entries written in ink.
Physical Description1 volumes19.8 x 15.8 cm
Pre-formatted pages with sections for each day of 1906. Entries from February 11 1906 to April 5 1906 and October 29 1906 to December 31 1906. All entries in pencil. Monthly calendars for 1906. List of Bank Holidays in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Description of postal regulations, English law sittings, eclipses, rising and setting of the sun per day, moon phases. Section for memoranda, addresses, cash accounts, and notes.
Physical Description1 volumes8.7 x 12.6 cm
Preformatted pages with sections for 2 days per page. Entries from January 1 1916 to May 20 1916 and June 2 1916 to June 17 1916 and July 21 1916 to October 19 1916. Large section of advertisements at beginning and end of diary. Advertisements spread throughout diary section. Seat plans of various theaters and opera houses in Philadelphia. Large section of tables of various information. Pre-formatted sections for cash accounts and daily expenses. Diary section begins on page 193. Party invitation from Mr and Mrs William Paul Morris in honor of Miss Ellenor Morris.
Physical Description1 volumes18.5 x 14.5 cm
Pre-formatted pages with sections for each day of 1932. Diary completely filled out with scrawled notes on every page, including end papers.
Physical Description1 volumes13.2 x 20 cm
A gem of a diary kept by a girl of 14, the intelligent and sophisticated daughter of a prominent upper middle-class family growing up on a country estate in early Victorian England, in fact during the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria. The diary, a closely wrottem 150-page document, evokes the genteel society of the period, and does so with real presence, while also making a poignant personal statement. There are many interesting narratives here--of education: French lessons, dancing lessons, reading; of pastimes and recreation including games, donkey riding, walks in the woods, flower gathering, swimming, and shell gathering; of travel: a visit to London to see the Coronation, another to the Italian opera; of encounters with peers, siblings, and companions, and with the adult world of family, teachers, maids. This is a record of inner life as well, of intimate thoughts and feelings that reveal a lively endearing personality. Here is a highly observant, feisty young woman with a mind of her own, but also one who is vulnerable, subject to moments of self-doubt, and even self-loathing; a young woman with a love of privacy and secrecy--her diary is her refuge--sentimantal, at times a bit melodramatic, in love with nature and the beautiful, but also outspoken, at times witty and sardonic, drawn to the whimsical and grotesque as well as the idyllic, tough minded in her opinion of others, occasionally in conflict with the adult world. Description and information provided by seller.
Physical Description1 volumes15.6 x 10 cm
Has 247 hand numbered pages recording travel through Europe from June through December 1895. Many locations are listed along with each entry, including: Edinburgh, Furrness Palace Hotel, Braemar, York Station Hotel, Bull Hotel, Cambridge, London, Holland, Berlin, Wittmoch, Potsdam, Heidelberg, etc. The diary contains some recipes, addresses, a section of autographs, and a log of correspondence. Written in both ink and pencil by one hand. Three small faded photographs. Multiple newspaper clippings. Pages torn from books about European landmarks.
Physical Description1 volumes10 x 16.1 cm
Page a day diary partially filled by unidentified owner, graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Page a day format not used. Entries dated from 1945 to 1987. Mix of hands. Combination of pencil and ink. Entries describe travels, shows attended, shopping trips, etc.
Physical DescriptionCover: A Page a Day. Physical item produced by: Samuel Ward MFG. Co. Boston, Mass, USA. Leather over boards. Gilt designs and title on cover. Worn condition, foxing around the edges.
Frances Arnold was a minor member of the Cornish Colony in Cornish, NH where she summered in the early 1900s. This is her diary from 1908 and chronicles her 3 1/2 month Grand Tour of southern Europe, Egypt, and the Middle East where she made daily notes. One of her companions was Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous glass-maker and founder of Tiffany Studios. In the summer she was at Cornish and schmoozed with August St. Gaudens, Fred Maxfield Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Winston Churchill, and others. The diary ends in early August. In the back there is what appears to be a laundry list plus a listing of over 350 photographs she took. Newspaper clippings with photographs of famous archaeological sites.
Physical Description1 volumes13 x 20 cm
Candid manuscript account of a voyage on the Cunard liner R.M.S. Carpathia from New York to Italy and travels in the latter during the spring and summer of 1905 by Anna Van Eps Burdick of New York, in company with her mother, sisters Mary and Katrina, and several other female friends. Burdick's many comments on what she saw are especially important for the light they shed on her own and her group's mindset. Stopping to see Gibralter on their way to Italy, to which they devoted most of their time and the lion's share of this manuscript, they also toured a few Swiss cities after going north through the Dolomites at the end of their vacation. In Italy itself, they began at Palermo, then traveled to Naples, Amalfi, Sorrento, Capri, Posilipo, noting buildings seen, atmosphere sensed, and sights incongruous to them as they toured each. In Rome, Ann Burdick did not much admire St. Peter's, but enjoyed the Barbarini Palace. During a papal audience arranged by an American friend, Burdick kissed the Pope's ring; then, after visiting the English church and cemetary, several other churches and palazzi and their gardens, off they went to Florence to feast upon its many galleries. They next toured Venice and then closed this account with walking the Dolomites, taking long coach ftives through named valleys, and moving on to stays in Zurich and Lucerne, where this party joined the Burdick's father, brother Charles, and some friends.
Physical Description1 volumes17 x 21.4 cm
A lengthy leather-bound diary written in English by a young man visiting Europe. Covers period May 14 1820 through June 22 1820 giving detailed descriptions and observations of his interests in Flushing, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Hague, etc. Approximately 52 handwritten pages describing the art, fortifications, construction of dikes, historical background inventions, etc. The back of the book, reversed, contains "Change sur Genes" and "Change sur La Prussie" in French.
Physical Description1 volumes12.5 x 19.3 cm
Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third diaries, expanded by her soon thereafter from the first into fuller narratives, one of her entire trip, the other displaying what she had learned of buildings and gardens she toured in Paris and Versailles. As suggested by the quotation printed above as our subhead, Cram was an active questioner; and her diaries combine details she herself discovered, and her opinions, with data well chosen from (we guess) her Cooks brochures and Baedekers. Ella Cram took this trip abroad in the company of one Mrs. CDT, with whom she left Ashland, NH, on July 2 1900, on the 8:20 AM train for Boston, MA where she admired the subway, shopped at R.H. White's department store, took in a variety show at Keith's theater, and admired "New South Station" as she and Mrs. T departed for Fall River. At Fall River they took the steamer Priscilla for New York city. Touing New York on the third, Cram and Mrs. T sailed the next day for England on the American Line's SS St. Louis. In London they stayed at the First Avenue Hotel, Holborn; and Ella soon discloses her interest in all things French by concentrating on macabre relics of the French Revolutions at Madame Tussaud's. Whether in London, Paris, or Versailles, Ella Cram recorded visiting many of her era's major tourist sites (much less so in the other cities she toured). Many of the more enduring buildings, public spaces, artwork, and notable gardens (now seemingly timeless elements of these places--but some of them new when Cram saw them) especially captured her attention--as did the lives of unfortunate royals. But many a passage locates Cram with considerable immediacy in the cities she toured as they existed in 1900. Cram's scribbled endpaper notes, diary entries written currente calamo, and slightly later expansions of the entries most important to her--all work together to tell careful readers a great deal of what travel diaries alone seldom tell us: something of how fully engages tourists' minds work first to note and then to reconstruct their travel experiences.
Physical Description1 volumes10.5 x 16.2 cm
Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third diaries, expanded by her soon thereafter from the first into fuller narratives, one of her entire trip, the other displaying what she had learned of buildings and gardens she toured in Paris and Versailles. As suggested by the quotation printed above as our subhead, Cram was an active questioner; and her diaries combine details she herself discovered, and her opinions, with data well chosen from (we guess) her Cooks brochures and Baedekers. Ella Cram took this trip abroad in the company of one Mrs. CDT, with whom she left Ashland, NH, on July 2 1900, on the 8:20 AM train for Boston, MA where she admired the subway, shopped at R.H. White's department store, took in a variety show at Keith's theater, and admired "New South Station" as she and Mrs. T departed for Fall River. At Fall River they took the steamer Priscilla for New York city. Touing New York on the third, Cram and Mrs. T sailed the next day for England on the American Line's SS St. Louis. In London they stayed at the First Avenue Hotel, Holborn; and Ella soon discloses her interest in all things French by concentrating on macabre relics of the French Revolutions at Madame Tussaud's. Whether in London, Paris, or Versailles, Ella Cram recorded visiting many of her era's major tourist sites (much less so in the other cities she toured). Many of the more enduring buildings, public spaces, artwork, and notable gardens (now seemingly timeless elements of these places--but some of them new when Cram saw them) especially captured her attention--as did the lives of unfortunate royals. But many a passage locates Cram with considerable immediacy in the cities she toured as they existed in 1900. Cram's scribbled endpaper notes, diary entries written currente calamo, and slightly later expansions of the entries most important to her--all work together to tell careful readers a great deal of what travel diaries alone seldom tell us: something of how fully engages tourists' minds work first to note and then to reconstruct their travel experiences.
Physical Description1 volumes9.3 x 14.7 cm
Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third diaries, expanded by her soon thereafter from the first into fuller narratives, one of her entire trip, the other displaying what she had learned of buildings and gardens she toured in Paris and Versailles. As suggested by the quotation printed above as our subhead, Cram was an active questioner; and her diaries combine details she herself discovered, and her opinions, with data well chosen from (we guess) her Cooks brochures and Baedekers. Ella Cram took this trip abroad in the company of one Mrs. CDT, with whom she left Ashland, NH, on July 2 1900, on the 8:20 AM train for Boston, MA where she admired the subway, shopped at R.H. White's department store, took in a variety show at Keith's theater, and admired "New South Station" as she and Mrs. T departed for Fall River. At Fall River they took the steamer Priscilla for New York city. Touing New York on the third, Cram and Mrs. T sailed the next day for England on the American Line's SS St. Louis. In London they stayed at the First Avenue Hotel, Holborn; and Ella soon discloses her interest in all things French by concentrating on macabre relics of the French Revolutions at Madame Tussaud's. Whether in London, Paris, or Versailles, Ella Cram recorded visiting many of her era's major tourist sites (much less so in the other cities she toured). Many of the more enduring buildings, public spaces, artwork, and notable gardens (now seemingly timeless elements of these places--but some of them new when Cram saw them) especially captured her attention--as did the lives of unfortunate royals. But many a passage locates Cram with considerable immediacy in the cities she toured as they existed in 1900. Cram's scribbled endpaper notes, diary entries written currente calamo, and slightly later expansions of the entries most important to her--all work together to tell careful readers a great deal of what travel diaries alone seldom tell us: something of how fully engages tourists' minds work first to note and then to reconstruct their travel experiences.
Physical Description1 volumes20.5 x 12.6 cm
Series of manuscript travel diaries, the first diary written by Ella M Cram of Keene, Essex County, NY, while she traveled, July 2 to August 11, 1900 from Ashland, NH, to Boston, Fall River, and New York, thence by steamship to England, where she spent much time in London before moving on to Antwerp, Belgium, Brussels, and Paris (where she toured the 1900 Exhibition), after which she returned to Britain, whence she sailed for the United States on the S.S Lucania--the second and third diaries, expanded by her soon thereafter from the first into fuller narratives, one of her entire trip, the other displaying what she had learned of buildings and gardens she toured in Paris and Versailles. As suggested by the quotation printed above as our subhead, Cram was an active questioner; and her diaries combine details she herself discovered, and her opinions, with data well chosen from (we guess) her Cooks brochures and Baedekers. Ella Cram took this trip abroad in the company of one Mrs. CDT, with whom she left Ashland, NH, on July 2 1900, on the 8:20 AM train for Boston, MA where she admired the subway, shopped at R.H. White's department store, took in a variety show at Keith's theater, and admired "New South Station" as she and Mrs. T departed for Fall River. At Fall River they took the steamer Priscilla for New York city. Touing New York on the third, Cram and Mrs. T sailed the next day for England on the American Line's SS St. Louis. In London they stayed at the First Avenue Hotel, Holborn; and Ella soon discloses her interest in all things French by concentrating on macabre relics of the French Revolutions at Madame Tussaud's. Whether in London, Paris, or Versailles, Ella Cram recorded visiting many of her era's major tourist sites (much less so in the other cities she toured). Many of the more enduring buildings, public spaces, artwork, and notable gardens (now seemingly timeless elements of these places--but some of them new when Cram saw them) especially captured her attention--as did the lives of unfortunate royals. But many a passage locates Cram with considerable immediacy in the cities she toured as they existed in 1900. Cram's scribbled endpaper notes, diary entries written currente calamo, and slightly later expansions of the entries most important to her--all work together to tell careful readers a great deal of what travel diaries alone seldom tell us: something of how fully engages tourists' minds work first to note and then to reconstruct their travel experiences.
Physical Description1 volumes9 x 15 cm
Record of her trip to Yellowstone Park with stops in Chicago, Salt Lake City (bathing in Salt Lake, mentions of Mormons and Bringham Young), West Yellowstone, tour of the Park, Old Faithful Inn, Grand Canyon, Mammoth Hot Springs, Sylvan Lake, and Cody, Wyoming. Contains: 19 mounted photographs. 1 ticket from Pullman Passenger's.
Physical Description1 volumes15 x 18.6 cm
Narrative account in the form of dated entries of varied lengths of Daniel Branch's participation in the French and Indian wars, campaign of 1758 at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. Largely concerns the daily life of a provincial soldier.
Physical Description1 volumes20 x 16 cm
Narrative diary with very short entries dating from 10 May 1795 to 24 June 1795. Largely concerned with account of transatlantic voyage (Ireland to America). Bound together with records of births and deaths in the Davis family, copies of devotional verses, and accounting notes.
Physical Description1 volumes15 x 10 cm
Narrative diary with very short entries dating from 5 Nov 1817 to 3 Jan 1818. Largely concerned with transatlantic voyage from England to America.
Physical Description1 volumes32 x 20 cm