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This collection contains selections from MSS 0097 - Diaries, Journals, and Ships’ Logs concerning events of the 1800s, including the United States Civil War, military accounts, memoirs, and travel.
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Item Louis Billing travel diary - plain text(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, 1865-08-24) Billing, Louis, fl. 1865.Plain text format. This diary documents the 1865 journey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident Louis Billing to England, where he visited relatives. He stayed with the family of his cousin William Mansell and other Billing relatives. Short trips were taken to other destinations in the United Kingdom and two months were spent in France. Billing commented on his relatives and ancestral history, described architecture and cathedrals, and made strongly patriotic comparisons between England and America. Billing served in the Union Army and mentioned English interest in the politics of abolition.Item Private Journal of James S. Doran - plain text(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, 1866-05-17) Doran, James S., fl 1866-1872.Plain text format. The journal is a personal narrative of James S. Doran, who served in the capacity of engineer on several steamships, including the Merrimack, the Thomas Kelso, the San Pelago, and the City of Mexico from May 17, 1866 through April 25, 1872.Item Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections - plain text(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, 1888) Paxson, Alfred I.Plain text format. The first eighty-seven pages of the volume consist of Paxson's autobiography and, later, diary entries. The final twenty-nine pages of the volume, spanning from pages 100 through 129 of the numbered journal, contain several of Paxson's "Reflections and Meditations" on topics such as death, religion, nature, the uncertainty of life, the usefulness of industry, bad and good, war, the seasons, the wonderfulness of our maker, female tight-lacing, and the "going down" of the Friend Meeting in Stanton, Delaware.Item Pocket diary - plain text(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, 1864) Smith, James E. fl.1864Plain text format. This diary was kept by a member of the 56th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, possibly named James E. Smith, from January 1 to May 5, 1864, during the U.S. Civil War.