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Emily Shore journals
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0104
Abstract
These three manuscripts are the seventh, tenth, and twelfth of twelve journal volumes created by a young Englishwoman named Emily Shore (1819-1839). Shore wrote these journals between October 1836 and July 1839, while she traveled around southern England, the Channel Islands, and Madeira, before dying of tuberculosis in Funchal, Madeira.
Dates:
1836-1839
Selina C. Washburn travel diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0080
Abstract
American Selina C. Washburn kept this travel diary during her 1854 voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to London, England, and Paris, France. Selina and her sister Sarah accompanied their father Cyrus Washburn on a business trip and her diary records her impressions of persons encountered, shops visited, and sightseeing excursions.
Dates:
1854 July 5-October 13