Letters to Lura Beam: travel letters, original letters from Australia, 1957
- Travel Writing, Spectacle & World History
You may need to log in to continue. Access the full document and its details.
- Title
- Letters to Lura Beam: travel letters, original letters from Australia, 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Traveller
-
- Schoedler, Lillian
- Reference
- MC 273 box 6 item 79
- Region
-
- Australasia
- Africa
- Country
-
- Australia
- Places
-
- Dakar
- Cape Town
- Durban
- Fremantle
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Alice Springs
- Ayers Rock
- Oodnadatta
- Darwin
- Perth
- Kalgoorlie
- Birdsville
- Sydney Harbour
- Launceston
- Description
- Letters from Lillian Schoedler to Lura Beam describing her travels in Africa and Australia. Includes a cutting from the Sydney Morning Herald marvelling at the 65-year-old American woman 'with adventure in her eyes' who still wants to travel the world. The Australian letters were used in her manuscript 'Tell Them I Came'.
- Library / Archive
-
- © The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University