Travel writing

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Materials documenting the life of Esther Balderston Jones during her time as a missionary in Japan (1914-1924) and from her father, Lloyd Balderston, about family history and geneology.

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This collection is primarily 20th century letters from the Benson, Potts, and Rhoads families.

Abstract This paper contains Everett Mendelsohn's reflections on his five week trip to the Middle East with three other members of the American Friends Service Committee in June and July of 1980. They visited cities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, and visited Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel and the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in Palestine. He focuses on his observations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and resolution efforts, US involvement in the Middle East in...

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The bulk of this collection consists of about 60 letters written by William Nisbet to his mother and sister during his travels abroad in the 1860s. William F. Nisbet was a retired businessman and travelor from a wealthy New York family. In 1865, at the age of 30, he retired in order to travel. In 1858, he traveled to South America, and from 1865 to 1868, he traveled around the globe. During his travels, he wrote letters and sent artifacts and artwork back home to his family in New York.

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The papers of related Quaker families including Collins, Cresson, Emlen, Morris, Wistar and Wood, consisting of travel letters, diaries, notebooks and photographs. Principals in the collection are Horatio C. Wood, Annabella Cresson Wood, Morris Wistar Wood, Caleb Cresson and Charles Wood.