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
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- Schoedler, Lillian
- Reference
- MC 273 box 6 item 78
- Region
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- Australasia
- Africa
- Europe
- South America
- North America
- Country
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- South Africa
- Papua New Guinea
- Somalia
- Mexico
- United States
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
- Costa Rica
- Austria
- England
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Djibouti
- Places
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- 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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