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Kay Boyle papers relating to the Citizens' Mission to Cambodia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0262
Abstract Kay Boyle, born in 1902, is best known for her work and accomplishments as a poet, short story writer, novelist, journalist, teacher, and political activist. One of the prominent American expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s, much of Kay Boyle's work reflects the influences of that literary circle. The Kay Boyle papers relating to the Citizens' Mission to Cambodia, spanning from 1960-1979, consists of diaries, correspondence, books, periodicals, news clippings, reports, speeches, audio...
Dates: 1960-1979; Majority of material found within 1966-1979

Summer Brenner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0617
Abstract

The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

Dates: 1962-2005

Clementina Dalcour travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0122
Abstract

This travel diary belonging to American foreign language instructor Clementina Dalcour documents her European travels between 1891 and 1903, including travel in Paris, Antwerp, and Brussels. Some entries, such as those written in Paris, are in French.

Dates: 1891-1903, 1919

Lee Anna Embrey student diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0151
Abstract These three diaries were kept between 1927 and 1929 by Central High School (Washington, D.C.) student and aspiring writer Lee Anna Embrey. Embrey described in very detailed, descriptive, and articulate language the events of her life. She wrote about family members, friends, school lessons, thoughts, and aspirations, as well as budding relationships. The diaries focus particularly on high school activities such as clubs and social events, with a special emphasis on the journalism club (Quill...
Dates: 1927-1929

Incidental notes of a trip to Europe made in 1868

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0029
Abstract

John C. Giles's journal contains a detailed account of his daily activities on a grand tour of Europe taken with his wife and daughter from June 3 to November 24, 1868. Giles described landmarks, churches, museums, plays, concerts, weather, hotels, transportation, shopping, dining, correspondence, people met, and social activities.

Dates: 1868 June 3-November 24

Walter Courtenay Pepys travel journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0120
Abstract

The journal of Englishman Walter Courtenay Pepys chronicles trips to Italy, France, Monaco, and Algeria in 1867. Entries describe travel conditions, landmarks visited, hotels, meals, and social engagements.

Dates: 1866 December 31-1868 January 13

Berta Ruck travel journals

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Identifier: MSS 0362
Abstract

Six volumes of Welsh writer Berta Ruck's travel journals, including correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Ruck records partial drafts of her works in progress, accounts of her financial and romantic difficulties, and memorabilia from her travels. She also details the growing anti-Semitism and the gradual rise of Nazi support in Austria.

Dates: 1928-1937

George Adolphus Storey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0586
Abstract

The papers of George Adolphus Storey, R.A., prolific British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings. Also included are several items belonging to his daughter, Mary Gladys Storey, an actress well-known for her charitable work during World Wars I and II.

Dates: 1848-1946; Majority of material found within 1848-1919

Peter Strickland papers

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Identifier: MSS 0171
Abstract

Peter Strickland (1837-1922) was a shipmaster, merchant, and U.S. consul in the French colony of Senegal. The diaries and letter books of Peter Strickland date 1857 to 1912. While varying in content, the diaries center around Strickland’s life as a merchant, both on the sea as well as in Senegal. Issues of two French colonial weekly newspapers contextualize the events of the French colony during Strickland’s time there.

Dates: 1857-1912

Forecastle journals

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0085
Abstract This journal, named after the forecastle or upper forward deck of a sailing ship, was kept by American sailor Archibald Wilson during the period 1842-1843 and documents five trips taken while serving aboard the ships James Edwards, Pioneer of Alexandria, and James Perkins. The journal entries document meteorological conditions, events of the day, duties performed aboard the ship, Wilson's...
Dates: 1842-1883; Majority of material found within 1842-1843

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Americans Want To Know 1
Bartlett, Matthew, -1880 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Brenner, Summer 1
Brenner, Summer--Archives 1
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Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 1
Central High School (Washington, D.C.) 1
Chester, Laura 1
Chester, Laura--Correspondence 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Crumb, R. 1
Crumb, R.--Correspondence 1
Dalcour, Clementina 1
Dulong, Jean Louis 1
Embrey, Lee Anna 1
Frym, Gloria 1
Frym, Gloria--Correspondence 1
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Giles, Isabella, -1890 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893 1
Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893--Diaries 1
Giles, Mary Annie 1
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895 1
James Edwards (Ship) 1
James Perkins (Ship) 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- --Correspondence 1
Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 1
Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 1
Miss Gladys Storey’s Bovril Fund 1
Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 1
Pepys, Walter Courtenay, 1840- 1
Pioneer of Alexandria (Ship) 1
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 1
Rodefer, Stephen 1
Rodefer, Stephen--Correspondence 1
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 1
St. John’s Wood Clique 1
Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus), 1834-1919 1
Storey, Mary Gladys, 1886-1978 1
Strickland, Peter, 1837-1921 1
The Figures 1
United States. Consulate (Dakar, Senegal) 1
Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875 1
Wilson, Archibald, active 1843 1
Wilson, Archibald, active 1843--Diaries 1
Wynfield, David Wilkie, 1837-1887 1
Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- --Correspondence 1
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