{"value"=>"<p>This series contains approximately eighty-five letters Jackson wrote to his second wife, Emilie Painter Jackson, during his travels abroad with the World's Transportation Commission. The letters recount the pleasures and many frustrations he experienced while working as the Commission's photographer. He comments on local customs, the foibles of his travelling companions, (especially the Commission's leader, Joseph G. Pangborn), varied eating and sleeping arrangements, hardships met with in his photographic work, and his nagging financial worries and concern about the welfare of his family during his extended absence. Many of the letters are quite long, but break off abruptly, often without closing or signature, so that they could be included in the day's outgoing mail.</p> <p>The letters are addressed from many locales including London, France, Algeria, Gibraltar, Egypt, India, Siam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Japan, China, Siberia, Moscow, and Berlin.</p> Jackson's letters from Russia are dated according to the Julian calendar (Old Style) but are interfiled chronologically with his other letters as if the dating system were unchanged."}