Found 5 collections related to France -- Description and travel

Collection contains correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings, and other printed memorabilia of the Gershoy family. Correspondence, 1912-1935, consists of letters written to Miriam and Morris Gershoy from their children and relatives and friends in Europe and the U.S., and letters to and from their daughter Eugénie. Letters by Leo Gershoy reflect his life at Cornell and Rochester universities and his travels in France. Letters by Alexander Gershoy concern his career as a botanist at the University of Vermont. Also, photographs of the family, biographical notes and printed matter. less

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

Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the Fleet and veteran of the Crimean, Chinese, West African, and Egyptian campaigns and the Boxer Rebellion, and a member of the Privy Council, kept this diary from March 28, 1906 through January 25, 1910. The diary covers the period of his retirement in London and near Maidenhead, with private and official travels to Canada (where he was part of the Prince of Connaught's entourage, March-May 1906); Vouvray (June 1906); Hamburg (August 1906); Munich (October 1906); Monte Carlo (March 1907); Gibraltar (October-November 1907); Jamaica (December 1907-February 1908); Vouvray (August 1908); Lake Como (September 1908); Madeira (February-March 1908); and New York (on the H.M.S. Inflexible for the Hudson-Fulton fete, September-October 1909). Seymour was also heavily involved in the state visit of Prince Sadanara Fushimi of Japan in May 1907 and was closely connected to social and court circles of the period. He was particularly interested in naval education, aeronautics, the theater, and painting The diary also includes a list of books Seymour read, a geographical index, and a key to shorthand symbols 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