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College of William and Mary

Rowena Goddard Diary

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Contains the diary of Rowena Goddard of Portland, Maine kept while traveling in Germany with her mother in the spring and summer of 1889. Goddard spends most of her trip in Dresden taking drawing lessons from a Herr Schinker. Some some other sites she visited while in Germany include Berlin, Bohemia, Karlstad and Bayreuth. In her diary, Goddard wrote of taking German lessons and socializing with other students and friends, wandering and observing the city she is in, her extensive travels by train, seeing and describing the Kaiser in Berlin, making sketches of country-side scenes, and getting her fortune told among other topics. The diary also contains loose drawings, train tickets, and flowers.

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Diary Box Small Collections Box 87, Folder 1

Rowena Goddard Diary 0.01 Linear Foot

Goddard, Rowena, 1869-1951

Contains the diary of Rowena Goddard of Portland, Maine kept while traveling in Germany with her mother in the spring and summer of 1889. Goddard spends most of her trip in Dresden taking drawing lessons from a Herr Schinker. Some some other sites she visited while in Germany include Berlin, Bohemia, Karlstad and Bayreuth. In her diary, Goddard wrote of taking German lessons and socializing with other students and friends, wandering and observing the city she is in, her extensive travels by train, seeing and describing the Kaiser in Berlin, making sketches of country-side scenes, and getting her fortune told among other topics. The diary also contains loose drawings, train tickets, and flowers.

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