A Guide to the Additional Nina Halsey Diaries, 1895
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Accession Number 10719-b
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Additional Nina Halsey Diaries, Accession #10719-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These diaries were given to the Library by Mrs. Charles Carnan of Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 2, 1988.
Scope and Content
These two bound travel diaries, 1895, kept by Nina Withers Halsey of Lexington, Kentucky, while on a tour of Europe conducted by Dr. Robert S. Barrett, continue Halsey's descriptive narrative about her trip begun in a previous volume (Accession Number 10719-a).
Each volume is illustrated with clippings, engraved pictures torn from a book, and memorabilia, and each part of her trip is described under clearly marked headings. Volume two begins on July 22, 1895, when the tour group left Venice for Florence.
Other sections in volume two include: Italy, Florence; Rome; St. Peter's Church; teh Vatican; Pompeii; Naples; Vesuvius; Pisa; Genoa; Turin; Geneva, Switzerland; Macon, France; Paris, and Versailles.
The third volume continues with Halsey's visit to Paris, France; the return to London, England; Westminster Abbey; Whitehall; Charing Cross; Trafalgar Square; Parliament; Hyde Park; Buckingham Palace; Tower of London; and ending with a ride up the Thames River.