Arlo Bates diaries, 1891-1915
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1891-1915
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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This diary of Arlo Bates contains content relating to his thoughts and experiences on Impressionism, the London Independent Theatre Society, the Bowdoin Centennial, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, sexuality in literature, socialism, the Maine Coast, the Spanish American War, the war in South Africa, and the writings of Josiah Royce, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry James. The diary contains a six page typed index for the years 1891-1909. It also includes typed and handwritten excerpts, notes, and newspaper clippings both laid and pasted in. The diary is bound in leather with gold ink tooling on spines and board edges, and also with marbled endpapers. Arlo Bates' bookplate is glued to the front inside cover.
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Bates family, Bates, Arlo, 1850-1918, Bates, Oric, 1883-1918, Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt, Excavations (Archaeology)--Sudan, World War, 1914-1918, Diaries