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48 Diaries. 19 Burlington (Vt. : Town). 17 Ambassadors' spouses -- Italy -- Turin -- Diaries. 17 Ambassadors' spouses. 17 Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Italy. 17 Diplomatic and consular service, American. 17 Italy -- Turin. 17 Italy. 17 Manners and customs. 17 Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901. 17 Savoy, House of. 17 Turin (Italy) -- History -- Sources. 17 Turin (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 16 Craftsbury (Vt. : Town). 16 Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882. 16 Simpson Mary Jean 1888-1977. 16 University of Vermont 9 Catholicism. 6 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882. 4 Women -- Diaries. 3 Italy -- Pegli. 3 Lamson, Genieve, 1887-1966. 3 Randolph (Vt. : Town). 3 Students -- Diaries. 3 Students -- Vermont -- Burlington. 3 University of Vermont -- Students. 2 Estcourt, Caroline Bucknal, Lady, 1809-1886. 2 Italy -- Como (Province). 2 Italy -- Florence. 2 Rattazzi, Urbano, 1808-1873. 2 Ricasoli, Bettino, 1809-1880. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 2 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 2 Way, Chester Murray, 1897-1973. 1 Africa. 1 Arms, Willard. 1 Aspromonte, Battle of, Italy, 1862. 1 Atlantic Ocean. 1 Blackwell, Anna, active 1875-1876. 1 Blinn Charles Henry 1843-1926. 1 Blinn, Charles Henry, 1843-1926. 1 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. 1 Calais (Vt. : Town). 1 Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861 1 Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di, 1810-1861. 1 Courtship. 1 Dorset (Vt. : Town). 1 Fairlee (Vt. : Town). 1 Families of military personnel. 1 Farnham Roswell 1827-1903. 1 Farnham, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 1828-1913. 1 Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903. 1 Fisher, Henry Osman, 1872-1954. 1 Fishing. 1 Garibaldi, Giuseppe 1807-1882. 1 Goodenough, Eli, 1821-1860. 1 Goodenough, Mandana White, 1826-1924. 1 Hardwick (Vt. : Town). 1 Hiking. 1 Hudson, James, Sir, 1810-1885. 1 Kasson, John A. 1 Kelley, Mary Susan Davis, 1866-1917. 1 Kent, Cephas, Jr., 1754-1813. 1 Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. 1 Maria Pia, Queen, consort of Luís I, King of Portugal, 1847-1911. 1 Marriage. 1 Marsh George P., (George Perkins), 1801-1882. 1 Medical education. 1 Merino sheep. 1 Military camps -- Virginia. 1 Novello, Clara, 1818-1908. 1 Pomeroy, John, 1764-1844. 1 Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873. 1 Root, Erastus, 1789-1829. 1 Soldiers -- Vermont -- Diaries. 1 South America. 1 Stillman, William James, 1828-1901. 1 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. 1 Switzerland. 1 Trent Affair, 1861. 1 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives. 1 University of Vermont College of Medicine. 1 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy 1820-1878. 1 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1820-1878. 1 Westmore (Vt. : Town). 1 Wheeler, David Hilton, 1829-1902. 1 Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.

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Miniature of Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1956
Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1956
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    • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
    • Date Created: 1956
    • Description: In this diary, Mary Jean details her first full year in retirement. Her life remains as busy as ever as Mary Jean stays heavily involved in various church and women’s groups. Involvement in the American Association of United Women, the Women’s Missionary Society, and the United Council of Church Women appear most prevalent in this diary. Mary Jean also describes being busy attending meetings for the Burlington Council on World Affairs, the Vermont Women’s Republican Club, and Delta Kappa Gamma. Her diary is also filled with descriptions of housework, cooking meals, and spending time with family and friends. Most notably is the time spent with her cousin Agnes and working in the library with her cousin Jean after church on Sundays. This diary also features a trip taken by Mary Jean to Washington for a WMS event and to visit old friends from her time as a Senate Bill Clerk. Topics in this diary include locomotive and automobile transportation, life in retirement, Women’s Organizations, Church Organizations, Vermont Food culture, and Post-War American politics.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries
    Miniature of Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1946
    Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1946
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      • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
      • Date Created: 1946
      • Description: In this diary Mary Jean deals with some health issues including a broken ankle and a thyroid illness. She describes being very busy at work, attending meetings such as the Executive Board of the Ladies of the Faculty. She also regularly participates in church and women’s group events. This included traveling to Connecticut for a YWCA and taking part in a search group to find a chairman for the Pulpit Committee at her church. As usual, Mary Jean ends her year with a description of packing gifts and spending Christmas with friends and family. Topics in this diary include Women’s Groups, Church Organizations, injury, illness, and healthcare in the 20th century, and faculty life at UVM.
      • Parent Collections: Diaries
      Miniature of Mary Farnham Diary, 1862-1863
      Mary Farnham Diary, 1862-1863
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        • Creator: Farnham, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 1828-1913.
        • Date Created: 1862-1863
        • Description: Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) Farnham, the daughter of Ezekiel and Nancy (Rodgers) Johnson, was born in Bath, NH, on January 19, 1828. She came to Bradford with her parents at a young age and was educated at Bradford Academy and the Newbury Seminary. On December 25, 1849, she married Roswell Farnham (1827-1903) in St. Albans, Vt. They returned to Bradford to teach in the Bradford Academy, Farnham as the teacher of painting and French, and her husband as principal of the academy. The couple joined the Bradford Congregational Church in 1854 and participated in a number of its activities: both Farnhams taught in the church’s Sunday school, and Mary Farnham held a chair on its music committee and was active in its missionary efforts. Farnham spent several months during the winter of 1862-63 in Union camps near Fairfax Court House and Wolf Run Shoals, VA, with her husband, who had been appointed Lieutenant Colonel and placed in command of the 12th Vermont Volunteer Regiment. Farnham returned to Vermont in April 1863 and her husband was discharged later that year, after which he entered into a career in politics. When Roswell Farnham was elected governor of Vermont in 1880, Mary Farnham became the state’s first lady and played an active role in gubernatorial social events. Farnham was involved in a number of civic organizations in her town, including Bradford’s Relief Corps. She helped found the Ladies’ Public Library and was its librarian for many years. Her interest in literature led her to enroll in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Course, from which she graduated in 1884. She went on to earn one hundred and forty seals on her diploma and was recognized for this achievement at the 1906 Chautauqua Assembly in Chautauqua, NY. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). Her first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Mary Farnham died on June 13, 1913, having suffered a stroke two weeks prior. Topics in Farnham’s diary include living conditions in Union camps and towns near the front lines, the roles and expectations of women during the American Civil War, Washington D.C. in the 1860s, mid-century modes of travel, and health and medicine during the Civil War.
        • Parent Collections: Diaries
        Miniature of Long Pond: A History and a Diary - Westmore, VT, 1886-1903
        Long Pond: A History and a Diary - Westmore, VT, 1886-1903
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          • Date Created: 1886-1903
          • Description: The Long Pond Westmore diary, which spans the years 1889 to 1903, contains a partial history of a summer camp on Long Pond in Westmore, Vt., as well as inventories of the camp’s supplies and accounts of property maintenance and recreational activities undertaken by its caretakers. Topics in this diary include local flora and fauna and outdoor recreational activities, such as hiking and fishing.
          • Parent Collections: Diaries
          Miniature of Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, April 8 - June 14, 1863
          Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, April 8 - June 14, 1863
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            • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
            • Date Created: 1863
            • Description: The Marshes explore Piobesi Castle and its gardens in this diary. George Perkins Marsh commutes from the castle to Turin to attend to diplomatic business and meets for a second time with King Victor Emmanuel. Caroline Crane Marsh continues to receive updates on the latest battles in the American Civil War, as well as the rising tensions between England and the U.S., France’s interference in Mexican affairs, and the “doings” of Richard M. Blatchford and J.C. Hooker in Rome. Topics in this diary include funerary practices in Italy, Catholicism and religious celebrations in Italy, the everyday experiences of the Italian peasantry, Italian marital norms, the behavior and treatment of women in Italy versus the United States, Italian medical practices, Italian agriculture, relations between the elites of Naples and those of Savoy, Turin court life and etiquette, and life as an expatriate in Italy.
            • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
            Miniature of Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, November 1 - December 31, 1863
            Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, November 1 - December 31, 1863
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              • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
              • Date Created: 1863
              • Description: The Marshes and their friends speculate on the likelihood of a “European” war breaking out in the spring, following the death of the King of Denmark and years of tense relations between France, Italy, and their neighbors. After months of tense negotiations with their Torinese landlady, the Countess Ghirardi, the Marshes finally move back into the Casa d’Angennes. Once there, Caroline Crane Marsh begins hosting dance lessons for her niece Carrie and others her age in the neighborhood, befriending the Countess Gigliuicci (Clara Novello) at the first lesson. George Perkins Marsh attends another royal hunting trip to Racconigi and begins attending public lectures in Turin. Topics in this diary including renting and occupying real estate in Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi, medical care in Italy, charity work in Italy, Italian funerary practices, English politics and diplomacy, reading habits in the nineteenth century, nineteenth-century attitudes towards Jews, Wallachia (Romania), Catholicism, etiquette, the Suez Canal, and the Taiping Rebellion.
              • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
              Miniature of Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, May 6, 1864 - September 22, 1864
              Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, May 6, 1864 - September 22, 1864
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                • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
                • Date Created: 1864
                • Description: Negotiations between Italy and France regarding the “Roman Question” and the placement of Italy’s capital spark violent protests in the streets of Turin. The Marshes go on several trips in this diary, visiting nearby landmarks as well as hiking into the Alps. Between trips, the Marshes gather the latest news on the American Civil War, including the details of the Battle of the Wilderness, and receive visits from the Estcourts and American diplomat David H. Wheeler, among others. Topics in this diary include the September Convention, Italian art and patronage, tourism in Italy, Italian funerary practices, relations between the Italian social classes, King Victor Emmanuel and the royal family of Savoy, the treatment of women in Italy, the Italian silk industry, George Perkins Marsh’s diplomatic duties, Greek War of Independence, differences in behavior and manners between Americans and Europeans, and the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This diary covers several topics relating to religion, as well, including Catholic royal marriages, convents and religious orders, conversion, and French Protestants.
                • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
                Miniature of Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, December 23, 1864 - February 21, 1865
                Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, December 23, 1864 - February 21, 1865
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                  • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
                  • Date Created: 1864-1865
                  • Description: This six-page diary records the Marshes’ final days in Turin and their move to Florence in 1865. Topics in this diary include King Victor Emmanuel, Italian art and music, and tourism in Italy.
                  • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
                  Miniature of Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, October 1 - December 31, 1861
                  Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, October 1 - December 31, 1861
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                    • Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
                    • Date Created: 1861
                    • Description: Political unrest across Europe, the Trent Affair, and accusations of French interference in Italian politics serve as the backdrop for the events in this diary. The Marshes continue to meet Italian elites and politicians, including the Duchess of Genoa, the Marchesa Doria, and Carlo Poerio, and befriend various diplomats and expatriates in Turin, including the Pulszkys, the Benedettis, and Mrs. Stanley. The Marshes travel to Florence to attend the National Exposition, and George Perkins Marsh takes part in two royal hunting excursions at Racconigi and Stupinigi. Topics in this diary include Rome, the Pope, and Catholicism; Victor Emmanuel, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Italian nationalism, the treatment of Garibaldian soldiers by the Italian government, rural industry and the everyday lives of Italian peasants, the behavior and manners of Italians, especially Italian women; relations between the Italian social classes, the American Civil War, especially slavery and foreign enlistment; the Suez Canal, and spiritualism.
                    • Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries
                    Miniature of Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1929
                    Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1929
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                      • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
                      • Date Created: 1929
                      • Description: This diary is not as full as Mary Jean’s typical year but records evidence of her daily life and some fascinating moments in American history. In this diary she is busy with work but has time for several Women’s group meetings including the Daughters of the American Revolution dinner and a Women’s Union meeting in New Orleans. She witnessed the inauguration of Herbert Hoover, and her brother, John, mentions in passing some fears of the stock market in mid-October. Her summer in Vermont is quite brief but is full of gardening, dinners, and traveling around the state to speak at women’s groups. Topics of interest include American Politics, especially presidential elections and the 1929 market crash; Women’s groups in the early 20th century; and travel by train and automobile.
                      • Parent Collections: Diaries