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England--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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

A holiday in Norway and along the way, 1908, being the journal of a trip by Charles H. Cummings and George G. Clark, as kept by the latter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0012
Abstract

This 1909 bound typescript manuscript was prepared by George G. Clark to commemorate his 1908 trip with Charles H. Cummings. Their travel from New York City to Norway by steamer and rail, along with details of experiences in many European locales along the way, is recounted in this travel narrative.

Dates: 1909
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Betty Lee Hutchinson papers

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Identifier: MSS 0839
Abstract

Betty Lee Hutchinson (1925-2020), a Democrat and Newark City Council member (1977-1980 and 1984-1988) was born November 18, 1925, in Uniontown, PA, to Harry J. Truman, Sr. (1897-1965), and Merle Carte Truman (1901-2001). The Betty Lee Hutchinson papers document the personal interests and civic activities of a woman with ties to Newark, Delaware, and the University of Delaware community.

Dates: 1900-2012; Majority of material found within 1975-2005
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

John W. Jordan, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" scrapbook

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Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0025
Abstract John Woolf Jordan (1840-1921) was a Philadelphia historian specializing in genealogies and personal histories, especially those of Pennsylvania families. This scrapbook comprises a single volume containing clippings of John W. Jordan's travel narrative, "Random Notes of a Week's Visit to England" from an unknown publication; also included are picture postcards and photographic illustrations of the ships on which he traveled and locations he visited, several of which are accompanied by...
Dates: 1911
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

William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Emily Shore journals

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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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