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Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

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Description: The Raymentons wrote this volume during their travels across the United States in July to October 1916. Remy spent a month at a civilian military training camp (part of the Preparedness Movement) in Plattsburgh, New York. The diary is approximately 65% in Remy's hand. Some of the diary is recorded in Hazel's hand (but Remy's voice), so presumably this is a fair copy of the original diary. Miscellaneous ephemera is tipped and laid in.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1916, July 10-October 22.
Call number: mssHM 83136
Creator: Raymenton, Hewstone (1891-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Walkabout Books, October 2016.
Dimensions: 24 cm :
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Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

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This diary is written by both Hewstone "Remy" Raymenton and his wife Hazel while on a trip around the world during World War I. They began in Pennsylvania and stopped in the following places: Chicago, the Rockies, Vancouver, Japan, and Manila. Particularly noteworthy is their reference to the captain of their ship to Manila sharing a secret: the Germans have made it known that their ship is a priority target. The diary also includes ephemera, hand-drawn sketches, tax stamps and some tipped in magazine pictures of their tourist destinations.

mssHM 82558

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Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

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A highly detailed account of part (this continues another diary, not present) of the couple's extensive travels in Japan (Kyoto, Tokyo, and many smaller locales) during World War I. The couple had a Japanese host who seems to have taken them to many places not commonly frequented by tourists. There are lengthy accounts of tea ceremonies and a variety of theatrical and ceremonial dances, musical performances; visits to many temples, shrines, and gardens; shopping districts, stores, and museums. The diary is approximately half in each writer's hand. Miscellaneous ephemera is tipped and laid in throughout.

mssHM 83137

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Hewstone Raymenton diary and scrapbook

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The diary is written by both Hewstone Raymenton and his wife Hazel while on a trip from New Orleans to San Diego and then north from San Diego to Tacoma, Washington. During their trip they stop in the following places: Houston, Clovis, Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, Riverside, San Diego, Point Loma, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Universal City, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Portland. While in San Diego, the Raymentons attend the Panama-California Exposition, and visit the Theosophical Society where they attend a lecture by Katherine Tingley; while in Los Angeles they visit the Echo Mountain Observatory where they talk with Edgar Larkin, as well as spend a day visiting Universal City Studios where they observe several movies being filmed; while in San Francisco they attend the Panama-Pacific Exposition; and while in Washington they go to Tacoma and the Mt. Rainier National Park. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to the reunions of the 1954 Riverside County, California, grand jury that indicted William G. Bonelli for election law violations; however, Bonelli fled to Mexico where he died in 1970, having never stood trial. Hewstone Raymenton was the jury foreman.

mssHM 66238-66239

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Richard C. Backus travel diary

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The travel diary documents Richard C. Backus' road trip from New York to Los Angeles with typewritten notes and labeled photographs. The diary includes details regarding their trip and the various people and places they visited along the way through Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The typewritten notes include details about miles driven, car trouble and repairs (the group traveled in three vehicles), and road and weather conditions. The diary also includes a hand-drawn map of the group's driving route.

mssHM 84014

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Western travel diary

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Travel diary by an unknown author documenting a train trip across the United States from Massachusetts to Yellowstone National Park and ending in Cleveland, Ohio. The diary is accompanied by a complete transcript.

mssHM 83423

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West coast travel diary of a woman

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A western train trip diary of a young woman as she traveled from Chicago to the west coast in 1915. On the front page it is written "For Neva from Carrie." On the cover of the leather diaries, "My Travels" is lettered in gold gilt. The author traveled from Chicago to southern California with a stopover at the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles and San Diego where she celebrated her 32nd birthday. Then it was up the coast to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Oregon and Washington, and then it was over to Yellowstone National Park and back home to Salina, Kansas. There is a photo which accompanies the diary of a young woman in a hammock, which could be either Carrie or Neva. Also at the rear of the diary are a number of people listed with their addresses.

mssHM 83415

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

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