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14x8.5 cm. (5½x3½"), red leather with clasp.

Nearly daily entries by a traveler from May 29th, when she left from the Ferry Building in San Francisco, to August 16th, when she returned home to Burlingame on the San Francisco Peninsula. Ms. Brown traveled by train across the U.S., through the Grand Canyon on the way east, and stopping briefly at Niagara Falls. She embarked in a Cunard Line ship at New York, bounced off Ireland and spent time in England before crossing to France, then onto Switzerland and Italy before reversing her route. She was quite meticulous in her record, giving a detailed daily itinerary, listing the hotels she stayed at, describing her meals and activities, with observations of the native peoples in their habitat. She gathered a number of autographs of fellow travelers, including several Japanese gentlemen, and of course the captains of the two ships on which she sailed. Laid in is a large color map, on which she has traced her route. A charming little travel diary.