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Atherton Blight travel diary, 1855-1858
Atherton Blight attended school in Philadelphia, graduated from Harvard and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. He spent much of his adult life in Newport, R.I., and in Europe. This volume is his travel diary of a Grand Tour to Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Crimea, and Greece. In Jerusa...
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| Date: | 1855-06-16, 1856-03-01/1856-05-14, 1858-02-05 |
| Call Number: | Am .0255 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14327 |
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Atherton Blight attended school in Philadelphia, graduated from Harvard and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. He spent much of his adult life in Newport, R.I., and in Europe. This volume is his travel diary of a Grand Tour to Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Crimea, and Greece. In Jerusalem, he visited Warder Cresson, a former Quaker from Philadelphia who had converted to Judaism and was an early Zionist. Blight also describes the battlefields and veterans of the Crimean War. This digital record contains images that depict selected pages from this volume. The images depict the cover and first page of the diary, which is dated June 6, 1855. Pages containing entries from June 7, 1855 - April 30, 1855 have been ommitted. The portion of the diary containing entries from March 3, 1856- May 14, 1856 have been imaged and are available in this record. The final page containing a post-entry from February 2, 1858 has also been included. |
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