Travel literature
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh papers of Lewis W. Bluemle
Collection
Identifier: CPP 2/003-01
Scope and Contents
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Tercentenary
Papers, spanning 1967 to 1981, are part of the records of
the Office of the President of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia. The bulk of the papers date from 1980 to
1981, when Lewis W. Bluemle was President of the College of
Physicians. The papers document Bluemle's involvement in
the Tercentenary Congress of the Royal College of Physicians
of Edinburgh.Series 1 contains correspondence pertaining to the
preparations...
Dates:
1967 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1981
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
Travel diary and other writings [anonymous]
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/178
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains the holograph diary of the physician
from his 1910-1911 voyage to Arabia, India, and Africa, as well
as the itinerary from his 1929 voyage to Sweden and Poland,
and a few poems.The 1910-1911 diary contains the physician's account of his experiences
and sights on his journey from Philadelphia, across the Atlantic
and Mediterranean to Egypt, around Arabia and through the Persian
Gulf to India, around the coast of Africa, and back across the...
Dates:
1910 - 1911
