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Title
Foreign notes from September 12, 1882 to January 1, 1883 (including notes from April 1883)
Creator
Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932
Date Created and/or Issued
1882
1882-09-12
1883
1883-03
Publication Information
Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Ellen Browning Scripps 1836-1932, Journalist, Humanitarian, Educator
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description
A handwritten travel diary on a lined paper notebook with a brown paper cover, written in pencil and in pen; the pages are not numbered. The document contains both dated and undated entries with details about travel schedules, expenses, and names of travel companions as well as brief references to contemporary and historical places and events in Egypt, Spain, Italy, France, Great Britain. Also included are verbs and common phrases in French and Spanish. On some pages, the writing has blurred or been smudged. The label on the front of the notebook is in German, identifying the book sellers as J. Mayr and A. Fessler, Vienna. Notes begin both at the front and back of the diary, ending approximately in the middle of the book.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
ebs00150
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll3/id/932
Language
English
Subject
Travel diaries
Tourism
Culture and history
Ocean travel
Railroad travel
Place
England
Scotland
France
Italy
Spain
Egypt
Source
Ellen Browning Scripps Collection, Detroit Evening News Travel Letters Drawer 24, Folder 23
Relation
Travel letters
Ellen Browning Scripps 1836-1932, Journalist, Humanitarian, Educator - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll3

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