Diary of a trip to Palestine, 1927.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American diaries--20th century--Specimens.

American diaries.

Palestine--Description and travel--20th century.

Palestine.

Europe--Description and travel--20th century.

Europe.

Egypt--Description and travel--20th century.

Egypt.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diaries

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Arthur Mitchell Fraas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 2016.

Purchased at the Allentown Paper Show (Allentown, Pennsylvania), 2016.

Physical Description:

1 volume

Place of Publication:

1927.

Summary:

A small volume bound with brown paper covers, ruled leaves, and "Memorandum" printed on the front cover. The volume, with the title "Diary Palestine tripp [sic]," written on the cover contains the writings by an unidentified person from Binghamton, New York of a two-month journey through Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land. The diarist departed from a port in New York CIty on June 3, 1927, aboard the S. S. Pennland, Red Star steamship line. The diary, written in pencil, provides brief daily entries describing the journey with a traveling companion named Mr. Crandall. Recorded in the diary are visits to notable sites, entries under the title "Funny things," cultural observations, notes of surroundings, and impressions daily life. On June 12 they arrive in Plymouth, England where they boarded a train to Paris. From France they travel to Cairo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Hebron, Nazareth, Galilee, and on to Damascus. They begin their return trip home touring Beirut, Athens, Rome, Milan, Lausanne, Cologne, and Amsterdam. On the journey they visited churches, museums, archaeological areas, significant religious sites, and historical landmarks. On July 26, 1927 they return to Paris and begin the journey back to New York. Mentioned are people they meet, for example, Mr. Burns, Secretary of the Cairo Y.M.C.A. The diarist notes a discussion of missionary work and conversions to Christianity. The first ten leaves of the diary have been torn out and laid in volume. The dates and entries of those leaves are repeated in the diary.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1765.

OCLC:

949443860