Note: Put the word between quotation marks (“example”) to perform an exact search.

Showing 1581 - 1590 of 2210 Records

Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, September 23 - December 21, 1864
Image nop
    • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
    • Date Created: 1864
    • Description: The Italian ministry dissolves and reforms in this diary amid countrywide protests against the September Convention treaty and debates over proposed bills for the suppression of monasteries and tax hikes on salt and other goods. The Marshes acquire the lower floors of the Casa d’Angennes during this period and the offices of the American Legation move into those rooms shortly after. Caroline Crane Marsh continues collecting items for the U.S. Sanitary Fairs and has an audience with the Duchess of Genoa. Topics in this diary include Italian law enforcement, slavery in the United States, differences between Turin and Florence, Italian art, Italian grief and funerary practices, convents, Italian medicine, relations between the Italian social classes, crime in Italy, political relations between Italy, France, and Rome; Catholicism, marriage, traveling and tourism in Russia, the Greek War of Independence, and the royal family of Savoy.
    • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries