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Louis Billing travel diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0119
Abstract This diary documents the 1865 journey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident Louis Billing to England, where he visited relatives. He stayed with the family of his cousin William Mansell and other Billing relatives. Short trips were taken to other destinations in the United Kingdom and two months were spent in France. Billing commented on his relatives and ancestral history, described architecture and cathedrals, and made strongly patriotic comparisons between England and America. Billing...
Dates: 1865 August 24-1866 March 14
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0009
Abstract Richard Champney’s memoir, which he entitled in full "Journal of Travels commencing from the year 1798, through various parts, of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, United-States of North America, Denmark, Germany, Holland, & the Netherlands. &c. by Richard Champney," was handwritten in four bound volumes and are a polished and edited version of daily journals kept by Richard Champney and his parents. The journals detail Champney's childhood journey from...
Dates: 1827-1828
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

A year in England

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0042
Abstract

This travel journal documents two trips to London, England, taken by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident Mary Olmstead Ives in the 1890s. Mary, who accompanied her husband Frederic Eugene Ives and son Herbert, described the journey by steamship to England, as well as events, social engagements, landmarks, tours, and local customs.

Dates: 1893-1896
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Journal of a voyage to investigate manufacturing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0157
Abstract

This journal was kept by an unknown American travelling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in 1811-1812. The author provided detailed accounts of British and Irish infrastructure and manufacturing efforts, as well as descriptions of local landmarks, scenery, and customs.

Dates: 1811-1812
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Diary of George G. Needham

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0054
Abstract

This five-volume private diary documents the life of New York City resident George G. Needham, who began the diary at age thirteen and kept it until he was twenty-two, giving a description of the everyday life and physical geography of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates: 1855 April 19-1864 July 24
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Selina C. Washburn travel diary

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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 1
Ives, Frederic Eugene, 1856-1937 1
Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953 1
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