Reverend George Bosworth Travel Diary

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Summary

Extent:
.01 Linear Feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Travel diary for Baptist minister and missionary, George Whitefield Bosworth of Portland, Maine. Leather-bound, monogrammed diary consists of detailed accounts of travels through Europe and Africa, with trips down the Nile River and into the Sinai Desert. Also contains contemplation on religious institutions and belief systems, specifically Islam and Roman Catholicism as they pertain to Bosworth's New England Protestantism. Smaller, cover-less journal recounts "a tout through the Desert, Palestine, Syria, Turkey And up to the Danube."

Biographical / historical:

Rev. George Whitefield Bosworth (1818-1888) was a Baptist minister at Free Street Church in Portland, Maine, where he also served as president of the Maine Baptist Missionary Society.

Acquisition information:
Purchased with funds from the Frances Randolph Howard Endowment.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard