C Bright, Mary Dwight Eaman (1888-1981), Papers, 1912-1913 960 .75 linear feet

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INTRODUCTION At age 24, Mary Dwight Eaman spent a year traveling around the world with her cousin, Mary A. Eaman. Traveling westward, they made stops in , , , Southeast , India, the Middle East, , Scandinavia, , and . The journal, correspondence, photographs, and postcards in the collection relate specifically to this trip.

DONOR INFORMATION The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Frances B. Kerridge on 29 April 1983 (Accession No. 4504).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Mary Dwight Eaman was born to Charles and Harriet Martin Eaman in Arizona Territory on 3 November 1888. She moved to Garden City, Kansas, at age 10. After her marriage on 16 to Haden H. Bright, brother of Clarkson Joel Bright and Rella Bright Evans, she moved to Mildred, Montana. She had one daughter, Harriet Frances Bright (Kerridge). In 1936 they moved to Columbia, Missouri, and lived in Haden House on the Bright family farm. Mary died at age 93 in Columbia on 12 December 1981.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE This collection gives a fascinating account of a trip around the world by a young school teacher and her elderly cousin. In the journal, which she kept daily, and the letters and postcards which she wrote to her parents, Mary Eaman not only described the places she visited, the people she saw, her travel companions, the food, accommodations, and transportation, but she also gave her reactions to the many new experiences. She delighted in her rides on elephants, camels, and donkeys and in her camping trips through the deserts of Egypt and Palestine. She commented on the people and events back home that her parents wrote about. Some of her letters were published by her hometown newspaper. Several of the letters in the collection were written by cousin Mary A. Eaman to Mary’s parents. The journal begins on 9 as Mary left Kansas and ends on 6 with her arrival in New York City. The correspondence dates from 10 September 1912 to 24 September 1913. Letters from are missing. The correspondence is filed chronologically. The photographs and postcards are grouped geographically by country in the order in which she visited them. Tour programs, maps, receipts, menus, tickets, etc., are filed at the end of the collection.

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FOLDER LIST

f. 1 Journal, 9 September 1912-6 September 1913 f. 2-7 Correspondence f. 2 10 September-27 : , Hawaii, and Japan f. 3 2 November-29 : Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, , and Burma f. 4 1 January-25 : Burma, India, and Ceylon f. 5 6 March-29 : Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, , and f. 6 6 June-24 : , Holland, , , Denmark, and f. 7 3 August-25 September 1913: Russia, Austria, Germany, and the f. 8-27 Photographs and Postcards f. 8 Portrait of Mary D. Eaman, on the Pacific Ocean, Japan f. 9 Korea and China f. 10 China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Burma f. 11-12 India f. 13 On the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal f. 14 Egypt f. 15 Camping on the desert from Egypt to Palestine f. 16 Camping trip through Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon f. 17 Turkey and Greece f. 18 Italy f. 19 Germany f. 20 Holland f. 21 France and England f. 22 Denmark, , and Finland f. 23 Norway f. 24 Russia f. 25 Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany f. 26-27 Unidentified f. 28-29 Miscellaneous tour programs, maps, tour guides, receipts, menus, tickets, and programs

INDEX TERMS

Subject Folders Image Asia, Southeast--Description and travel, 1,3,4 Asia, Southeast--Description and travel--Views, 1910s 10 y Bright, Mary Dwight Eaman (1888-1981) 1-29 China--Description and travel, 1910s 1,3 Diaries--Travel, 1910s 1 Diaries--Women's, 1910s 1 Eaman, Charles 1-7 C 960 Bright, Mary Dwight Eaman (1888-1981), Papers, 1912-1913 Page 3

Subject Folders Image Eaman, Harriet Martin 1-7 Eaman, Mary A. 1-7 Eaman, Mary A. 8, 14, 18, 23, y 26 Eaman, Mary Dwight (1888-1981) 1-7, 29 Eaman, Mary Dwight (1888-1981) 8, 14, 15, 23, y 27 Eaman, Mary Dwight (1888-1981) SEE ALSO Bright, Mary Dwight Eaman (1888-1981) Europe--Description and travel, 1910s 1, 5-7, 28, 29

Europe--Description and travel--Views, 1910s 17-25 y India--Description and travel, 1910s 1, 4 India--Description and travel--Views, 1910s 11, 12 y Japan--Description and travel, 1910s 1, 2 Japan--Description and travel, Views, 1910 8 y Maps--Europe, 1910s 28 Maps--Japan, 1910 28 Middle East--Description and travel, 1910s 1, 5 Middle East--Description and travel--Views, 1910s 13-17 y Ocean travel, 1910s 1-7 Ocean travel, 1910s 8, 13 y Postcards, 1910s 2-27 y Russia, Description and travel, 1910s 24 y Scandinavia, Description and travel, views, 1910s 1, 6 Scandinavia--Description and travel--Views, 1910s 22, 23 y Travel, 1910s 1-29 Voyages and travels, 1910s 1-29 Voyages around the world, 1910s 1-29 Women, 1910s 1-7, 8-27 y