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Diary of Gladys Ryan written during her trip to Europe. She begins her trip on a train from Oakland, California via Chicago to New York. She sails June 25, 1929 on the Saturnia of the Casculisch line. She describes life aboard the ship. Her first stop is Algiers, then she visits Capri, Naples, Amalfi, Pompeii, Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna, Prague (where a man in a tavern spat at her and her friend), Munich, Lucerne, Interlaken and Montreaux. She describes the tourist sites and the towns, even giving a little history of each area. She also gives her opinion on the people, the cleanliness or dirtiness of the area, the hotels, prices and other things. She tells of her evenings, which often include dancing and meeting locals. While in Europe, she travels by train and bus.

Diary of H.A. Porger of Duluth, Minnesota for the year 1917. Porger was a shipyard worker, whose entries describe work, leisure activities, as well as World War I mobilization in this hometown. The following description was provided by the seller:"... writes about going to the Orpheum to see the shows with dancers, attending a Burlesque show, getting drunk, attending a stag party, going to a "rough neck" dance and a masquerade dance, dances at the "Lakewood Chateau", playing the gramophone and Victrola, going on a moonlight excursion on the Mississippi, going to see the Barnum Circus side show, buying a Ford car, camping, a hockey game, sleigh rides, eclipse of the moon, accidents on the docks, War being declared on Germany,Soldiers guarding the docks, watching the drafted soldiers & the naval militia leave for war, a "Monster Patriotic Parade" with 17,000 people, having a "little scrap" with drunken soldiers at a dance, a mother who poured carbolic acid into her sons eyes to prevent him from going to war,

Set of 5 journals and a few single letters, poems, postcards and photographs.The journals document vacations and visits to Harlan H. Ballard, Jr.'s cabin, referred to in one of the journals as 'Arbutus Lodge.' Arbutus Lodge was located in Nichewaug, near Barr, both Worcester County, Massachusetts. The entries were written both by the host and guests and detail their visits and activities. Several of the volumes contain photographs.Some of the names mentioned are: Spencer S. Dodd, A. D. Quimby, Billy Kim, Billy Dort, Chris Sheldon, Helen, Donald, and Eugene Rust, Harry J. Kane, Bert D. Comry, Howard L. Hillman, Robert Whitehill, Glady’s H., George H., Bobby, Eleanor and Pricilla Tracey, George W., Alice, and Malcolm Todd, James E. McAlpine, Alfred P., and Helen B. Whitehill, Fred W. Notman, Blanch and Bernard Farr, Shenfelder, Ed Inman, Almon McManus, Sadie Holem, Tristane Tupper, Nelson G. Cooley.One volume is a diary kept by Elizabeth A. Ferguson for parts of 1942-1943. She seems to have been a family friend. It does not relate to vacations at Arbutus Lodge.

Papers of Harry Newman containing the diary of his voyage as a cadet on the MS Crown City/South African Dispatch Line from San Francisco on route to Africa in 1930, letters to and from family members mostly relating to Harry's travels, a letter from the president of the dispatch line, V. H. Pinckney, with an update on the ship's progress, as well as several black and white photographs, some of which also relate to the MS Crown City trip. There is also one letter from Jeypore, India, written in Hindi. Harry's diary entries run from July 18, 1930 to October 8, 1930. The last entries describe Port Elizabeth in South Africa and Lourenço Marques (Maputo Bay), in what was then Portuguese Mozambique.