Manuscripts

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Image not available

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1917, April 10-May 20.
Call number: mssHM 83137
Creator: Raymenton, Hewstone (1891-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Walkabout Books, October 2016.

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Manuscripts

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.

mssHM 83136

Image not available

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Manuscripts

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

Image not available

Hewstone Raymenton diary and scrapbook

Manuscripts

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

Image not available

Fascinating features of fair Japan

Visual Materials

An album with 50 hand-tinted photographs of Japan showing gardens, shrines, temples, palaces, parks, resorts, scenic landscapes, and traditional Japanese arts and occupations, such as Ikebana, Sumo wrestling, No theater, and rice planting. The images include "Three Views of Japan": the islands at Matsushima, the shrine at Itsukushima, and the sandbar at Ama no Hashidate. There are photographs of various sites in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kyushu, and Nikko.

photCL 60

Image not available

Skywatchers, shamans & kings : astronomy and the archaeology of power

Rare Books

The author presents "essential sacred places--as well as celestial shrines far off the beaten path," "a fascinating journey to all corners of the world to visit the shrines and temples, tombs and caves where ancient priests and rulers communed with the gods of the sky."--Jacket.

610007

Image not available

Western travel diary

Manuscripts

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

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Hewstone Raymenton and Hazel Raymenton travel diary

Hewstone Raymenton diary and scrapbook

Fascinating features of fair Japan

Skywatchers, shamans & kings : astronomy and the archaeology of power

Western travel diary