Letters to Lura Beam: travel letters, original letters from Australia, 1916, 1939-1963

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Title
Letters to Lura Beam: travel letters, original letters from Australia, 1916, 1939-1963
Date
1916, 1939-1963
Traveller
  • Schoedler, Lillian
Reference
MC 273 box 6 item 78
Region
  • Australasia
  • Africa
  • Europe
  • South America
  • North America
Country
  • South Africa
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Somalia
  • Mexico
  • United States
  • Guatemala
  • El Salvador
  • Costa Rica
  • Austria
  • England
  • Spain
  • New Zealand
  • Djibouti
Places
  • Cape Town
  • St Wolfgang
  • Tahiti
  • Stanford
  • California
  • Palo Alto
  • Los Angeles
  • Colorado Springs
  • Pikes Peak
  • Paris
  • Carmel
  • Wiltshire
  • Salzburg
  • Vienna
  • Bad Gastein
  • Ashland
  • Yosemite National Park
  • Nevada
  • Auckland
  • Salisbury
  • Alaska
  • Vera Cruz
  • Addis Ababa
  • Harar
  • Djibouti
  • Cape Horn
  • San Francisco
  • Laredo
  • Gulf of Honduras
  • Rio Grande
  • North Carolina
  • Monterrey
  • Mexico City
  • Guatemala City
  • Oaxaca
  • San Salvador
  • Newland
  • Lassen Volcanic National Park
  • San José
  • Mogadishu
Description
Letters and postcards from Lillian Schoedler to Lura Beam describing her travels around the world, ending with some from New Zealand. Includes a long letter written from a frontier detention camp in Abyssinia in May 1940, a record of the reaction to President F. D. Roosevelt's death in Mexico City and an account of a nun's reaction when she looked at paintings by El Greco in a Spanish convent.
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