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Journal of Travels Commencing from the Year 1798

 Collection
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

Joseph Hoare Beale journals

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0002
Abstract

The Joseph Hoare Beale journals, 1796-1848, consist of nine volumes kept by a world traveler of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth-centuries. Beale, who may have been of Irish origin and served as secretary to Lord Thomas Pitt in Ceylon before traveling to America, recorded weather observations, activities, and expenses in the five "daily weather diaries." He also produced a holograph of Sir Thomas Moore's "Sacred Melodies."

Dates: 1796-1848
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

Journal of voyage to England- travels in England, Wales, Ireland Scotland voyage home, March 29th - Oct. 25th 1834 : Journal of a voyage to Rio de Janeiro-Bahia-Pernambuco New York, Dec 15th 1835

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0068
Abstract

Reverend Theodore William Snow's travel journal chronicles three separate trips to the British Isles and Brazil in the 1830s. Snow’s ink and pencil entries fill a marbleized paper-covered account book and detail travel by ship, landmarks and structures seen, events, social customs, and religious practices.

Dates: approximately 1834-1872; Majority of material found within 1834-1835
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Thomas Ward travel journal

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0078
Abstract

This journal was kept by Thomas Ward, Jr., and chronicles his sightseeing trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1860. Entries provide a record of the voyage and a summary of each day of sightseeing.

Dates: 1860 June 12-September 15
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Giles, John C., approximately 1825-1893 1
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Giles, Mary Annie 1
Gilpin, Joshua, 1765-1841 1
Leigh, Samuel 1
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. Sacred melodies 1
Pitt, Thomas, Baron Camelford, 1775-1804 1
Snow, Theodore William, 1810-1872 1
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Thompson, Jonah, 1786-1861 1
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