Found 5 collections related to England -- Description and travel

Laura Jean Libbey was a popular American author of romance novels. She kept these journals (6 vols.) from 1892-1903 during tours through Europe, Egypt, the West Indies, and Bermuda. The journals include information on Florence, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Venice, and the Lake District of Italy, as well as Paris, Rouen, southern France, Greece, Austria, Bohemia, Dresden, Cologne, the Rhine country of Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Switzerland, England, and Scotland. The journals also include postcard illustrations and other material less

S.R. Leland was an American clergyman. Collection consists of letters, 1918-1919, by Leland to his wife while he was YMCA secretary with the A.E.F. in France and England, describing the English and French countryside, his duties as YMCA secretary (including problems in securing supplies and entertainment for soldiers), and conditions of troops in France. Also, letters to him and an undated account by A.E. Hungerford of the torpedoing of the S.S. Oronsa, on which Leland sailed to England. less

Amy L. Waters began this diary during a tour of Europe from June 19-September 13, 1907 and continued making entries for several years. The last entry was made September 20, 1910. Waters visited England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Her descriptions stress visits to the theater in London and dining with Hamilton Revelle. Entries made in 1908, 1909, and 1910 describe vacations at Lake George, New York and elsewhere in New England and eastern Canada. The last portion of the diary contains notes on European history lectures Waters attended at the Lowell Institute less

Diary entitled "Wakiva Ahoy!" kept by writer George P. Dillenback. Describes a voyage from Liverpool and London, returning via St Marys Harbor, North Sidney, New London, and Larchmont, in which the author relates incidents of the voyage, World War, etc less