Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Knowlton, John D
• Hoogenboom, Ari

Titel

Herbert Putnam: A 1903 Trip to Europe

Ist Teil von

• College & Research Libraries, 2006, Vol.67 (3), p.276-276

Ort / Verlag

Chicago: American Library Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this collection of the transcribed and edited manuscripts of Putnam's travel letters, John D. Knowlton, a retired archivist and librarian for the Library of Congress, reveals Putnam's sense of humor, love of family as husband, father, and brother, and professional concern for keeping in touch with the Library of Congress even while on his European tour. The book includes an introductory essay by Ari Hoogenboom, Emeritus Professor of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, which places Putnam's travels in Europe in context with other "travelers [who] wished to widen their intellectual horizons and to experience natural wonders," including such notables as scholars and men of letters George William Curb's and Charles Eliot Norton, artists Mary Cassatt and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, writers Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, and Mark Twain, and composer Edward MacDowell, to name just a few.