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This guide covers records of travel, generally in diary or journal form, containing descriptions of journeys, places and experiences. Many were written during the course of the journey, either with or without the intention of publication. In addition to chiefly travel purposes, the journeys written about were also undertaken during the course of exploration expeditions, touring holidays or visits made for work purposes on behalf of an international organisation.

Africa

Americas

Antarctic and Arctic (Polar Regions)

Asia

Australasia

Europe

Africa

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Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini DE MANONCOURT (1751-1812), naturalist, traveller in the Eastern Mediterranean. Fragment of a travel journal, apparently in Egypt, 1778. MS.7638

George MACARTNEY (1737-1806) Ist Earl McCartney, ambassador from the UK to China. Journal of voyage from London to China, via the Cape Verde Islands, 1792-1793 (copy taken c.1805). MS.3352

French naval surgeon, early 19th century Accounts of voyages to the East and West Indies, including watercolours of scenes in Madagascar, 1808-1816. MS.4956

John DAVY MD FRS (1790-1868) army surgeon. Journal of a voyage from Britain to Ceylon via the Cape of Good Hope, 1816. MS.7686

Surgeon of the William Miles travel journal Anonymous journal of the voyage of the ship from the UK to India and back, including passages via the Cape of Good Hope and stopping at the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1819-1821. MS.7114

Richard Lemon LANDER (1804-1834) traveller in Africa. Partial diary of the expedition in which he discovered the course of the Niger, 1830. MS.3159

Dr. STREHLER (fl. 1830) naval surgeon. One autograph note in German (Strehler's name suggests that he might be German rather than Dutch), signed, recording a visit to St. Helena, 1830. MS.7669/24

Robert MCCORMICK (1800-1890) naval surgeon and naturalist. Diaries of Antarctic expeditions of HMS Erebus, including information on the birds of Cape Verde Island and description of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 1839-1843. MSS.3366-3370

Henry PIERS (1818-1901) naval surgeon. Journal while assistant surgeon on board HMS Cleopatra, on anti-slavery patrols off the coast of East Africa, especially Madagascar, Mozambique and Zanzibar, 1844-1847. MS.5990

John HODGKIN Jr (1800-1875) lawyer and philanthropist. Correspondence concerning Dr Friedrich Bialloblotsky's expedition from Zanzibar inland towards the Nile, 1846-1849, PP/HO/E/A1202, A1496, A1732. PP/HO

Thomas GRAHAM (d.1850) assistant naval surgeon. Diary of a passage to China, via the Cape of Good Hope, 1849-1850. MS.5462

Charles Tilstone BEKE (1800-1874), Ph.D. Abyssinian explorer. Journals, notebooks, correspondence and other papers on Abyssinia and the sources of the Nile, 1849-1867. MSS.6834-6856

John William MUDGE MD (1817-1886) surgeon, Madras. Journal of service during second Burmese War and in India, including description of voyage home to England which included a transit through Egypt, visiting the Pyramids, etc., 1852-1855. MS.7454

James Tyrrell Carter ROSS (1823-1897) Surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India. Commonplace book including Ross's journal of his 'journey home on sick furlough 1855' 30 Aug-30 Oct 1855. Departing from Aden, the journey includes travel through Egypt. MS.7857

Joseph DICKINSON MD, FRS (1812-1865) physician. Diary of a tour to Egypt and Palestine, 1856-1857. MS.2118

Anthony Dickson HOME (fl.1857) surgeon, 90th Foot. Diary re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, 1857. RAMC268

John PETHERICK (1813-1882) British consul at Khartoum, traveller. Travel journals and papers of Petherick and his wife in Sudan, 1862-1863. MSS.5787-5791

John Temperley GRAY (1835-1892), P. & O. Company ship's surgeon. Notebook compiled in India and on various ships between England and the Far East, including a description of the Seychelles, 1862-1888. MS.5875

Fleetwood BUCKLE (1841-1917) Royal Navy doctor. Journals of travels, including to West Africa and South Africa, Gulf of Guinea, mouth of the Congo, also stop-overs at St. Helena and Ascension islands in the Atlantic Ocean. 1866-1870. MSS.1395-1404

Sir Thomas BARLOW (1845-1945) physician. Journal of a tour of Egypt and Palestine, 1868. PP/BAR/A/2-3

Benjamin Stephen HOBSON (1840-1896) missionary. Letters to his father Benjamin Hobson MD describing his journey from Pietermaritzburg 900 miles north to the goldfields of southern Africa, 1868-1869. MS.5836

Thomas HODGKIN MD (1788-1866) pathologist and philanthropist. Correspondence and papers relating to the posthumous publication of Hodgkin's A Narrative of a Journey to Morocco, 1860s, PP/HO/D/B328-341. PP/HO

Herbert Richard BRACEY (c.1849-1901) P. & O. Company ship’s surgeon. Accounts of visits to Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramids, Egypt, 1873. MS.5290

William HOFFMAN (1867-1941) traveller in Africa. Journal and papers, mainly concerning his travels in Africa in the service of H. M. Stanley (especially on the Emin Pasha relief expedition of 1887-1889) and while working as an interpreter for the Congo Free State from 1891. MSS.6010-6012

Lionel DECLE (fl.1893-1906) traveller in Africa and journalist. Notebooks and letter book concerning his travels in Central and East Africa, 1893-1900. MSS.6017-6024

Mary KINGSLEY (1862-1900) traveller and writer. Letters to her cousin Rose Kingsley, written from the Calabar area of West Africa, describing her travels, the area, people and wildlife, 1895. MS.8489

Mrs HAINES (fl.1896-1897), wife of Dr Humphry Haines of Auckland, New Zealand. Diary describing voyage from New Zealand to Europe via Colombo and the Red Sea, travel in the Mediterranean, Ireland etc., and return journey via Tenerife, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Cape Town, 1890s. MS.8146

Albert Jules Franck DASTRE (1844-1917), diary of travels to Lyon, Algiers, etc., unspecified year, c.1900. MS.8485

Joseph Everett DUTTON (1874-1905) and John Lancelot TODD (1876-1949), pioneers of tropical medicine. Diaries and notebooks relating to expeditions sent out to Africa by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to study diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Notably, Gambia, Congo, Senegal and Nigeria, 1901-1905. MSS.2248-2262

Gustave Jules Alphonse WITKOWSKI (1844-1923) surgeon, writer and medical historian. Travel accounts, written under the pseudonym “Dr Clam”, of two journeys including Egypt, 1901-1902, and another in 1905 including Egypt, illustrated with a few pencil and crayon drawings by the author: with numerous inserted photographs, picture post-cards, hotel-bills, cuttings, maps, plans, etc. MSS.5087-5088

Robert Ernest MCCONNELL (1877-1929) specialist in tropical medicine. 'Gold Coast Recollections', an account of an expedition sent out by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in December 1904, to organize sanitary and antimalarial measures in Ashanti and the Gold Coast, written up c.1910. MS.3355

Captain Peter JOHNSTON-SAINT (b.1886 ) Wellcome Historical Medical Museum curator. Papers including Johnston-Saint's travel diary in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, 1933. See also RP/Jst/B for typed accounts of these and other tours including North Africa in the 1920s. WA/HMM/CO/Chr/J.174 & RP/Jst/B

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Americas

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Ship's log, French Journal of the voyage of the Brilolle from France to Cayenne and the West Indies, 1764-1765. MS.7099

Thomas THOMSON (1776-1853) British Army surgeon. Commonplace book including notes of a voyage from Gibraltar to the Island of St. Kitts, and an expedition to Martinique, 1807-1809. MS.4781

French naval surgeon, early 19th century accounts of voyages, including to the West Indies and to New Orleans, 1808-1816. MS.4956

New Orleans Expedition Volume of medical and topographical sketches by an un-named British military surgeon, including service in the New Orleans expedition of 1815. MS.3504

Robert MCCORMICK (1800-1890) naval surgeon and naturalist. Diaries and sketch books with material on journeys to the West Indies and South America (including visit to the Falkland Islands), 1823-1843. MS.3356-3370

Charles WATERTON (1782–1865) English traveller and naturalist. Letters and cuttings, including references to his travels in South America, 1824-1865, and a visit to the United States 1825. MS.7806

John DAVY MD FRCS (1790-1868) Army surgeon, Inspector of Hospitals in the West Indies. Journal of travels in the West Indies, from Barbados to Grenada, Antigua, Montserrat and St. Kitts, 1846, and journal of an inspection tour to Trinidad, also visiting Georgetown, Demerara (now Guyana), 1847. MS.7700-7701

Rev. Charles KINGSLEY (1819-1875) clergyman and novelist. Letters from Charles Mansfield discussing the latter’s travels in Brazil and Argentina and the prospects of travelling in Paraguay, 1846-1852. MS.8488

Sir Thomas LONGMORE (1816-1895) Surgeon-General. Diary entries, Feb 1848, with 19th Regiment in Trinidad. Diary entries and reminiscences of trips from Canada to the U.S.A, 1849 and 1850. RAMC1139/L/85/1-4

Thomas GRAHAM (d.1850) assistant naval surgeon. Diary of a passage to China, via Brazil, including sketches made in Brazil, 1849-1850. MS.5462

Sir Clements Robert MARKHAM (1830-1916) geographer. Illustrated account of his travels in Peru 1852-1852, including journey there from New Brunswick, Canada, through New England, New York and Panama. Contains detailed archaeological descriptions of Pachacamac, Cuzco, and other Inca sites, and an account of the decisive battle of Ayacucho (1824) from his tour of the battlefield with a participant, as well as lively descriptions of the state of travel in Panama and Peru and of society in Lima and the provinces. Written up probably in the early 20th century. WMS.Amer.126

James Armstrong MACDONAGH FRCS (1820-1899) Cunard company surgeon. Journal of observations made on voyage on emigrant ship from Ireland to Quebec and on subsequent travels in Canada, 1853. WMS.Amer.139

James Tyrrell Carter ROSS (1823-1897) surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India. Commonplace book including Ross's journal of his 'journey home on sick furlough 1855' 30 Aug-30 Oct 1855. Departing from Aden, the journey includes travel through Canada - Newfoundland and Quebec, and the east coast of America. MS.7857

Thornton John HERAPATH (1830-1858) chemist. Journal of voyage from Southampton to Chile via the Panama overland route, stopping with Herapath's arrival at "Huanacho or Guanacho" (probably Huanchaco), 1856. Herapath was on his way to take up the appointment of Chief Chemist to the Mexican and South American Smelting Company at Herradura near Coquimbo; he drowned on the return voyage. MS.8558

Henry PIERS (1818-1901) British naval surgeon. Voyage via the Falkland Islands and the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru, December 1856-June 1857, and while stationed at Vancouver Island, June 1857-March 1859. Piers was based at Vancouver Island during the Governorship of Sir James Douglas (1803-1877), when British Columbia was declared a British Colony. MS.6110

Fleetwood BUCKLE (1841-1917) Royal Navy doctor. Journals of travels, including stops in South America (Brazil, Chile, St. Helena, Ascension Island), 1866-1870. MSS.1394-1404

T B BUNTING (fl.1874–1911) American Quaker who served in the Guatemalan army and resigned in 1881 as General of Division: ‘Guatemala: The Saddle in the Tropics’, typescript account of travel in Guatemala area in 1874–76, 1885. MS.8549

Charles Brodie SEWELL MD (1817-1900) British physician. Journal of a holiday in the United States and Canada: sailing to New York City (notably sight-seeing to Brooklyn Bridge), travelling via upstate New York and Niagara to Toronto, then to Montréal, Quebec, Boston, New York City again, Washington DC and back to New York City, 1883. MS.4508

Edward SHARPEY-SCHAFER (1850-1935) physiologist. Papers relating to his trip to North America in 1908 and a round the world trip in 1913. Plus letter-diaries of Maud Schafer to her mother, of a trip to America in 1884. PP/ESS

Thomas HODGKIN MD (1788-1866) pathologist and philanthropist. Fragment of account of American travels, author unknown, 19th century, PP/HO/D/D176. PP/HO

Dr Townsend W. THORNDIKE (fl.1908-1915) collector of exploration and travel archives and memorabilia. Collection of material chiefly on Polar exploration but including various items relating to sub-Arctic Canada and Alaska, 19th and 20th century. MS.7481-7490

Robert Neal RUDMOSE-BROWN (1879-1957) British naturalist. Account of expedition to Weddell Sea and South Orkneys on Scottish Antarctic ship Scotia beginning and ending journey at the Falkland Islands, 1903-1904. MS.4314

Andrew BALFOUR (1873-1931) Medical Scientist, Director, Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research. Notebooks, diaries and other papers kept by Balfour during his trip to the West Indies and South America for Henry Wellcome, 1914. The trip was mainly to investigate public health and sanitary matters and tropical medicine in the region. WA/BSR/BA/Sci/B

Louisa MARTINDALE (1872-1966) surgeon. Material generated on various visits to America, including Baltimore, Rochester, Chicago, Cleveland and Toronto, 1919, New York, Hartford (Conn.), Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, 1924 and New York, Philadelphia, Canada, Pittsburgh, Florida in 1950. Some contain picture postcards.

MSS.3473, 3478 & 3487

Katherine HARMAN (fl.1935) wife of N B Harman FRCS (1869-1945). Diary kept by Mrs Harman during the British Medical Association Round the World Tour, on which she travelled with her husband. The party travelled by ship from Southampton to New York; across the USA via Washington, Chicago, Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles to San Francisco; by ship to Hawaii and so forth to other continents, 1935. MS.7394

Eileen PALMER (fl.1913-1989) birth control campaigner. Material on Edith How–Martyn’s birth control tours to the USA and Jamaica, 1935-1940. PP/EPR/C

Robert Henry Stewart THOMPSON (1912–1998) biochemist. Travel diary, and other material, relating to visit to USA and Canada, 1943. PP/RHT/A/3

George MACDONALD (1903-1967) malariologist. Files relating to various tours, missions, and visits (including to Puerto Rico and St. Lucia) undertaken by Macdonald mainly in connection with malaria eradication etc.,1948-1966, in Section C. PP/MAC

Leonard Colebrook (1883-1967) bacteriologist. Diaries of American tour, 1950. PP/COL/A/11-12

Sir Weldon Dalrymple–Champneys (1892-1980) physician and public servant. Material re visits to USA and Canada 1950-1955. GC/139/H/6

Sir Graham Selby WILSON (1895-1987) microbiologist. Section F contains records of a number of overseas trips in an advisory capacity for the World Health Organisation, including re visit to International Congress of Microbiology, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1950, USA and Canada, 1953 and 1955, Washington 1965. PP/GSW/F

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897-1989), anaesthetist. Diaries of visits to Barbados, Curacao, Grenada, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Caribbean islands, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica and the USA, 1950-1970s. PP/RRM

Brigadier Sir John Knox Smith BOYD, RAMC (1891-1981) pathologist and tropical medicine specialist. Diary notes of tours including to the USA and the West Indies, between 1952 and 1966. RAMC1816/10/3

Henry Rouse VIETS (b.1890) medical historian. Diary of a journey in the USA from Boston to Richmond and Los Angeles, 1957. MS.8628

Sir Christopher ANDREWES (1896–1989) virologist. Travel journal of professional trips to the USA (New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bethesda, Washington, Minnesota, 1957-1964. GC/168

Stanley George BROWNE (1907-1986) leprologist. Journals of ‘Foreign Visits and Travels’ representing or commissioned by various leprosy organisations. They form day-to-day accounts of his activities, personal and work related, on each visit, notably including details of the itinerary, the visits, talk, seminar, lecture, etc., opinions on conferences and papers given, comments on scenery and other thoughts. The books often also contain loose papers such as schedules, invitations, notes, letters, notices, notes from his wife Mali, leaflets, tourist brochures, maps, programmes of service, local church newsletters, ephemera such as airline tickets, and occasionally photographs and postcards. On some trips he was accompanied by Mali. Include visits to Canada, the USA, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and notably Mexico. Journals are in section H.5 (see also H.6) and cover 1962-1985. WTI/SGB/H

Professor Donald HUNTER (1898–1979) physician. Itineraries, correspondence, diary, etc., re visit to Mexico, Aug-Sep 1965. PP/HUN/D.2/22

Carlos Paton BLACKER (1895-1975) psychiatrist. Blacker’s ‘Year summaries’ including visit to the United States 1960s. PP/CPB/A/6

Sir Ronald Bodley SCOTT (1906–1982) physician and clinical haematologist. Diary account of travel in Mexico, Jan 1979, plus very sketchy diary of 1966 which included the USA. PP/RBS/A

Sir George GODBER (b. 1908) public health and health education specialist. Report of British Council tour to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, 1973. GC/201/A.3/2/8

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Antarctic and Arctic (Polar Regions)

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Explorers and Travellers Miscellany Correspondence and papers of various explorers and travellers, formerly held in a subject file in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Material filed in alphabetical order of author, some mentioning travels and experiences on expeditions. Polar figures represented include Hjalmar Johanssen (1867-1913), Sir Robert McClure (1807-1873), Baron Nils Adolf Nordenskjöld (1832-1901), Sir James Clark Ross (1801-1862) and Jean Sylvestre (fl.1785-1817). There is also an anonymous brief description of expeditions by Captain Middleton and Mr Dobbs in Hudson’s Bay, 1741-1747. Material covers 1776-1918. MS.7328

Polar Explorers Miscellany Letters by various individuals involved in early 19th century British Polar exploration, such as George Back (1796-1878), James Clark Ross (1800-1862) and Edward Sabine (1788-1883), some mentioning travels and experiences on expeditions. Material covers 1821-1884. MS.7404

Robert MCCORMICK (1800-1890) British naval surgeon and naturalist. Journals compiled during various Polar expeditions: journal of voyage north of Spitsbergen in the Hecla, 1827, MS.3357; diary, memoranda and meteorological registers compiled during expedition of HMS Erebus to Antarctica commanded by James Clark Ross, 1839-1843, MSS.3365-3370; diary, memoranda, sketches and meteorological tables made during Franklin search expedition in HMS North Star, 1852-1853, MSS.3372-3382. MSS.3357-3382

Thomas HODGKIN (1798-1866) pathologist and philanthropist. Extracts from narrative of travels in Siberia, 19th century. PP/HO/D/D219

Townsend THORNDIKE Collection letters and ephemera relating to exploration and travel in the Arctic and Antarctic, with most major figures and expeditions represented. Particularly well represented are Albert Operti (1852-1927), artist specialising in historical paintings depicting Arctic exploration, and member of the 1896-1897 expedition of Robert Peary (1856-1920); Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871), and members of the 1881-1884 Greely expedition. Material covers 19th and 20th centuries. MSS.7481-7490

Robert Neal RUDMOSE-BROWN (1879-1957) British naturalist. Account of expedition to Weddell Sea and South Orkneys of Scottish Antarctic ship Scotia led by W. S. Bruce, 1903-1904. MS.4314

Sir Raymond Edward PRIESTLEY (1886-1974) geologist to Robert Falcon Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition. Notes on bird, animal, plant and insect life in the Antarctic, compiled on Shackleton and Scott expeditions, 1908-1912. MS.3996

Denis Gascoigne LILLIE (1888-1963) marine biologist to Robert Falcon Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition. Notebooks including biological log and whale log compiled on Scott’s ship the Terra Nova, 1903-1915, and cuttings relating to the Scott expedition, 1910-1914. MSS.3259-3286, MS.3253

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897–1989), anaesthetist. Travel diary of visit to Alaska, 1967. PP/RRM/C

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Asia

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Cornelis DE BRUIN (1652-1719) traveller. Incomplete manuscript translation of de Bruin’s travels in Muscovy, Persia and the East Indies, 1703-1706, (including coast of Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, Batavia, Bantam), plus incomplete account of journey by Sir John Chardin (1643-1713) through Persia 1674. MSS.1378-1379

F. SAVARY (fl.1755) French missionary priest in Tonkin (now Vietnam). Account of journey from France to Tonkin via Mauritius (including a description of the hospital there) and Macao, and description of missionary work in Tonkin, 1755-1758. MS.6065

Mr PIGOT (fl. 757-1759) naval surgeon. Journal of a passage from Bengal to England, travelling through Persia, Arabia and Turkey, 1757-1759. MS.3906

Sir Joseph BANKS (1743-1820) naturalist and traveller. Correspondence and papers relating to the expedition to India of the Polish botanist Anton Pantaleon Hove (fl.1785-1829). Hove was sent by the Council for Trade and Plantations, under the presidency of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury (1727-1808), with orders to follow Banks' instructions. 1787-1790. MS.5219

George MCCARTNEY (1737-1806) 1st Earl McCartney, Governor and President of Fort St. George (Madras). Journal of a voyage from London to China, via the Indian Ocean including via Batavia (Djakarta), with description of Amsterdam Island, 1792-1793 (copy taken c.1805). MS.3352

John DAVY MD FRS (1790-1868) Army Surgeon. Journal of a voyage from Britain to Ceylon via the Cape of Good Hope, 1816. MS.7696

Cuttings re military medicine, etc. Extracts from a journal re voyage to the East Indies from England, with impressions of India, 1817-1818, by an Assistant Surgeon in the East India Company. Extracted from the Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society 1916. RAMC1279/1

Surgeon of the William Miles travel journal anonymous journal of the voyage of the ship from the UK to India and back, calling at Madras and Calcutta and including detailed descriptions of both cities, 1819-1821. MS.7114

John DAVY (fl.1821) Assistant Surgeon. Account of the Interior of Ceylon and of its inhabitants. With travels in that island, contained in an article in The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review, 29 Sept 1821. RAMC321

Gerard, James GILBERT (1795-1835), surgeon, Bengal. Letter, 1826, signed, written while on expedition in the Himalaya foothills, describing his journey and discussing botany with reference to the article on Himalayan horticulture by his brother, the explorer Alexander Gerard (1792-1839). In the papers of Nathaniel WALLICH FRS (1786-1854) Danish surgeon and botanist, superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. MS.7578/3

Edmund ROBERTS (1784-1836) United States merchant and diplomat. Letters, in the papers of John Robert Morrison, Chinese interpreter and Colonial Secretary of the Hong Kong government, concerning the Peacock expedition to Siam and Cochin China led by Roberts, 1832. Part of the papers of the Morrison and Hobson families. MS.5830

Robert MCCORMICK (1800-1890) naval surgeon and naturalist. Diaries of the Antarctic expeditions of HMS Erebus, including voyage across the Indian Ocean and period anchored at the Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, 1839-1843. MS.3366-3370

Sir Charles FELLOWS (1799-1860) traveller and archaeologist. Drafts for Fellows' Travels and Researches in Asia Minor (London, 1852), and illustrations from Fellows' second expedition to Asia Minor which explored the ancient cities of Lycia, in modern Turkey, 1840 (these sketches, in various media, were made by Fellows and by George Scharf (1820-1895): their travels were documented as An account of discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor by Charles Fellows (London, 1841). MS.5634 & 6959

Thomas GRAHAM (d.1850) assistant naval surgeon. Diary of a passage to China to join the expedition against pirates (he died shortly after arrival), 1849-1850. MS.5462

John William MUDGE MD (1817-1886) surgeon in Madras. Journal of service during the Second Burmese War, in India and of his voyage home to England, 1852-1855, with additional entries made in Ceylon, 1859. MS.7454

Alfred Bowyer BARTON FRCS (1825-1905) P. & O. Company medical officer. Journals, mainly written while a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company sailing between Bombay, Singapore and Hong Kong; also including journals, sketches and other material from Barton's service on Captain Thomas Blakiston's Yangtze River expedition in China on which Barton served as medical officer. Also journal of a 6 week stay in Ceylon on the way back from China expedition. 1853-1861. MSS.5958-5963, 7589-7594

John Bishop KING medical practitioner at Penang, and his wife Joanna King. Diaries, covering J. B. King’s journey to India and travels there (places visited including Calcutta, Allahabad, Dinapore, Patna and Barrackpore), his settling in Penang and life there before and after their marriage, ending with their departure to the Andaman Islands. 1855-1868. MSS.7630-7632

Joseph DICKINSON MD FRS (1812-1865) diary of a journey to Egypt and Palestine, during which Dickinson’s wife died of fever at Jaffa, 1856-1857. MS.2118

Thomas HODGKIN (1798-1866) pathologist and philanthropist. Persia: extracts from narratives of travel, 19th century, PP/HO/D/D216; Russia: extracts from narrative of travels in Siberia, 19th century, PP/HO/D/D219. Also, papers and letters concerning Hodgkin’s journeys to Palestine and death at Jaffa, 1860-1866, MSS.5683-5684; fragments of narrative of travel in Cambodia, translated from the French of H. Moubot, c.1859, PP/HO/D/D217-218. PP/HO & MSS.5683-5684

Thomas Young BAKER (1837-1892) military surgeon. Diary, including a voyage from Southampton to Calcutta to take up the post of Staff-Assistant-Surgeon to the 27th Regiment. Illustrated with a few inserted pen-drawings of churches, coast-lines, etc., 1861-1862. MS.1038

John Temperley GRAY (1835-1892), P. & O. Company ship's surgeon. Notebook on natural history, local customs, climate, etc., made in India and on various ships between England and the Far East, including a description of the Seychelles, 1862-1888. MS.5875

Sir Thomas BARLOW (1845-1945) physician. Journal of a tour of Egypt and Palestine, 1868. PP/BAR/A/2-3

Frederic Freeman ALLEN (1825-1888) Surgeon-Major. Description of medical and sanitary arrangements for Chittagong column of Lushai Expeditionary Force, with information about the country traversed and its language, 1872. MS.926

Herbert Richard BRACEY (c.1849-1901) P. & O. Company ship’s surgeon. Diaries and letters relating to voyages to India and China as ship’s surgeon, 1872-1874. MSS.5288-5292

James CANTLIE FRCS (1851-1926) President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Fragments of travel papers including journal account of visit to Japan, c.1874-1894. MS.6932

Sir Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907) FRS Indian Medical Service. Diary of tour of India as physician to Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, 1875. RAMC2004/10

Alexandre YERSIN (1863-1943) bacteriologist. Typescript accounts, with illustrations, describing Yersin's travels in Vietnam (prior to and following on from his published accounts), c.1892-1894. MS.8607-8608

Sir William LEISHMAN (1865-1926) pathologist. Photocopy of diary of leave trip to Kashmir, 1896. RAMC625

Mrs HAINES (fl.1896-1897) wife of Dr Humphry Haines of Auckland, New Zealand. Diary of a voyage from New Zealand to Great Britain and back, calling at Colombo, 1896-1897. MS.8146

Louisa MARTINDALE (1872-1966) surgeon. Diary recording persons met and visits made on world tour, taking in India, 1900-1901. MS.3740

Gustave Jules Alphonse WITKOWSKI (1844-1923) surgeon, writer and medical historian. Travel account and impressions, written under the pseudonym “Dr Clam”, of a journey through Europe including Turkey, 1901. MS.5086

J. E. L. BASHFORD (fl.1907-1918) RN. Diary whilst serving on the China Station, including visits to Hong Kong, Japan and elsewhere in the Far East, 1908. MS.5737

Paira MALL (1874-1957) Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Papers relating to Paira Mall's travels in the East (notably India and South East Asia) collecting for Henry Wellcome. The material builds up a detailed picture of Mall's travels, 1910-1924. See also WA/HMM/CM/Pai for additional material representing his travels. WA/HMM/CO/Ear 560-574 & WA/HMM/CM/Pai

Donald Mars Morphett ROSS (1865–1921) Medical Officer on board the coolie–ship Hong Bee. Diary, including voyages between Penang and the China Coast, 1913. MS.4260

Brigadier Sir John Knox Smith BOYD, RAMC (1891-1981) pathologist and tropical medicine specialist. Diary of the voyage from England to Burma of the S.S. Martaban, on which Boyd was ship's surgeon, 1914. Also diaries of tours including to Turkey between 1952 and 1966. RAMC1816/1/1 & 1816/10/3

Sir Matthew FELL (1872-1959) Director-General of Army Medical Services. Letter from Surgeon General Treherne re his voyage from Aden to Suez, and re mines around Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Aden, 1917. RAMC364/5/4

Barclay BARROWMAN (1896-1978) malariologist. Accounts of travels in the Dutch East Indies (Bali, Java, the Moluccas), 1925. GC/144/2

Captain Peter JOHNSTON-SAINT (b.1886 ) Wellcome Historical Medical Museum curator. Papers including Johnston-Saint's travel diary in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, 1933. Plus diary of tour to Near East, Italy, France, and Spain' [also Greece and Turkey], 1931. See also RP/Jst/B for typed accounts of these and other tours including to Near East in 1930 and 1935. WA/HMM/CO/Chr/ J/174 & RP/Jst/A.10

Richard Ernest Cornish COPITHORNE (fl.1933-1996) ship’s surgeon. Diaries of voyages on cargo vessels between England and the Far East, calling at Colombo and Aden en route and visiting Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Japan, 1934-1935. MSS.7679-7680

Katherine HARMAN (fl.1935) wife of Nathaniel Bishop Harman FRCS (1869-1945). Diary kept by Mrs Harman during the British Medical Association Round the World Tour, on which she travelled with her husband. The party’s travels included Macassar, Bali, Java and Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Suez, 1935-1937. MS.7394

Eileen PALMER (fl.1913-1989) birth control campaigner. Edith How-Martyn papers relating to international birth control tours to India and Japan, 1930s. PP/EPR/C

Lieutenant-Colonel J.W. WAYTE, RAMC surgeon. War Diary as officer commanding as Senior Medical Officer on a voyage from Bombay, India, to Aden (South Yemen), Aug 1941. RAMC1952/3

Thomas HUNT (1901–1980) gastroenterologist. Diaries while in India during Second World War with RAMC, c.1944, including travel documents, ephemera and note-book of general interest, tour notes. GC/46/A/1/3-4

Robert Henry Stewart THOMPSON (1912–1998) biochemist. Travel journals of trips to India and to Borneo and Indonesia, 1960s-1970s, and to Moscow, 1945 and 1960. PP/RHT/A/3

George MACDONALD (1903-1967) malariologist. Files relating to various tours, missions, and visits (including to Ceylon, Korea, Iran, Turkey and the Philippines) undertaken by Macdonald mainly in connection with malaria eradication etc.,1948-1966, in Section C. PP/MAC

Lieutenant General Sir Neil CANTLIE (1892-1975) surgeon and Director-General of Army Medical Services. Impressions of a visit to Korea and Japan, extracted from the British Medical Journal, 1952. RAMC465/18/18

Sir Graham Selby WILSON (1895-1987) microbiologist. Section F contains records of a number of overseas trips in an advisory capacity for the World Health Organisation, including to Israel 1952, Moscow, Azerbaijan, Armenia, 1964 and 1966, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong, 1972. PP/GSW/F

Sir Christopher ANDREWES (1896–1989) virologist. Travel journal of trips to Israel and Lebanon, 1950s, and Japan, 1963. GC/168

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897-1989) anaesthetist. Travel diaries of trips to India, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, Pakistan, Nepal and Lebanon, 1950s-1970s, texts of lectures given and lectures on his experiences there. PP/RRM

Stanley George BROWNE (1907-1986) leprologist. ‘Journals of Foreign Visits and Travels’ representing or commissioned by various leprosy organisations. They form day-to-day accounts of his activities, personal and work related, on each visit, notably including details of the itinerary, the visits, talk, seminar, lecture, etc., opinions on conferences and papers given, comments on scenery and other thoughts. The books often also contain loose papers such as schedules, invitations, notes, letters, notices, notes from his wife Mali, leaflets, tourist brochures, maps, programmes of service, local church newsletters, ephemera such as airline tickets, and occasionally photographs and postcards. On some trips he was accompanied by Mali. Include visits to Nepal, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Iran, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, Afghanistan and Burma. Journals are in section H.5 (see also H.6) and cover 1962-1985. WTI/SGB

Carlos Paton BLACKER (1895-1975) psychiatrist. Blacker’s ‘Year summaries’ including diary of sea trip to the Indian Ocean, 20 Dec 1961-3 Jan 1962, and diary of sea voyage to Singapore 1963. PP/CPB/A/6

Robina ADDIS (1900–1986) psychiatrist. Material relating to visit to the Philippines, 1965. PP/ADD

Dame Honor Bridget FELL (1900–1986) biologist. Papers re visit to Japan in 1968, including itinerary, notes and snapshots. Plus notes on visit to India, 1965. PP/HBF

Sir Ronald Bodley SCOTT (1906-1982) physician, clinical haematologist. Undated accounts of travel in Israel (possibly during Second World War) and of tour including Beirut, Lebanon, 1966. PP/RBS/A

Sir John MCMICHAEL (1904-1993) cardiologist. Material relating to a visit to Iran and Kuwait, 1968-1969. PP/JMM/H/5

Sidney G. HAMILTON (fl.1972) physician. 'Memories of a visit to the People's Republic of China 1972’, account of the first visit to China by British medics for 15 years, by a group of 10 doctors plus the two travel agents who had made the arrangements. The group went to Shanghai, Hanchow, Canton, Beijing, Nanking and Wusih. Dr Hamilton describes visits to various medical institutions, and records several major operations performed under analgesia using acupuncture. The group also visited the Great Wall and other tourist attractions, a People's Commune and other sights of interest. MS.7972

Henry MCILWAINE (1912-1992) biochemist. Papers re trip to Japan including conference, visits to laboratories, research institutes, etc., 1973. PP/MCI/F.25-27

MEDICAL PILGRIMS (f.1928) Correspondence about visits to China, 1970s. SA/PIL

Sir Ronald Bodley SCOTT (1906-1982) physician, clinical haematologist. Travel diaries include accounts of visits to Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines and S. E. Asia, Pakistan and Beirut, 1966, and to Burma and Brunei, 1970s-1980s. PP/RBS/A

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Jacques Julien Houton DE LABILLARDIERE (1755-1834) botanist and traveller. Two items relating to his voyage to the Pacific under Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni chevalier d' Entrecasteaux (1737-1793) in search of the explorer Jean-François de Galaup comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788), 1792. MS.7830/34-35

Joseph OLIVER (fl. 1810) church clerk, Staffordshire, England. Collection of notes including material on Captain James Cook’s explorations in the Pacific and visit to New Zealand, c.1800. MS.3713

Matthew FLINDERS (1774-1814) naval hydrographer and explorer of Australia. Letter from Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and traveller, to Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) of the Institut National, Paris, including a request to release Flinders, currently a prisoner of war in Mauritius, and describing the voyage that brought Flinders there, 1804. MS.7830/1

Robert MCCORMICK (1800-1890) naval surgeon and naturalist. Diaries of Antarctic expedition of HMS Erebus, including visits to Australia (notably Tasmania) and New Zealand, 1839-1843. MSS.3366-3370

Harry Hayter RAMSDALE (fl.1860) emigrant to Australia. Diary recording voyage on emigrant vessel Clifton from Gravesend to Queensland and travel in Queensland (including description of Brisbane) prior to settling in Allora, 1861-1862. MS.5324

Fleetwood BUCKLE (1814-1917) Royal Navy doctor. Journals of voyage from Great Britain to Australia, visiting Melbourne and Sydney, then back via a crossing of the Pacific calling at Hawaii, 1869-1870. MSS.1404-1405

Mrs HAINES (fl.1896-1897) wife of Dr Humphrey Haines of Auckland. Diary describing voyage from New Zealand to Europe and back, 1896-1897. MS.8146

Louise MARTINDALE (1872-1966) surgeon. Diary recording persons met and visits made on world tour, taking in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Hawaii, 1900-1901. MS.3470

Katherine HARMAN (fl.1935) wife of Nathaniel Bishop Harman FRCS (1869-1945). Diary kept by Mrs. Harman during the British Medical Association Round the World Tour, on which she travelled with her husband. From the USA the party travelled by ship to Hawaii, Fiji, Auckland and Australia, then by ship once more to Indonesia and home via Suez, 1935. MS.7394

Robert Henry Steward THOMPSON (1912–1998) biochemist. Travel diaries and correspondence re his RAMC service in Australia during World War Two (diaries may cover New Guinea, where he also served), 1944-1945. PP/RHT/A/3

Professor Ronald HARE (1899–1986) bacteriologist. Illustrated account of travels in Singapore and Australia in 1955. PP/HAR/A.17

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897–1989) anaesthetist. Travel diaries for New Zealand, Australia and Tahiti, 1950s-1970s. PP/RRM

Stanley George BROWNE (1907-1986) leprologist. Journals of ‘Foreign Visits and Travels’ representing or commissioned by various leprosy organisations. They form day-to-day accounts of his activities, personal and work related, on each visit, notably including details of the itinerary, the visits, talk, seminar, lecture, etc., opinions on conferences and papers given, comments on scenery and other thoughts. The books often also contain loose papers such as schedules, invitations, notes, letters, notices, notes from his wife Mali, leaflets, tourist brochures, maps, programmes of service, local church newsletters, ephemera such as airline tickets, and occasionally photographs and postcards. On some trips he was accompanied by Mali. Include visits to Australasia and the Far East c.1969–1970, the Pacific Islands, Fiji and New Zealand in 1972; South Pacific Islands in 1974 including Samoa and Tonga. Journals are in section H.5 (see also H.6) and cover 1962-1985. WTI/SGB/H

(Robert) Gwyn MACFARLANE (1907–1986) haematologist and biographer. Notebook of trip to Australia to research a biography on Howard Florey, c.1972-1974. Plus diary of his trip from Southampton to Freemantle, 1970s. PP/RGM/F.1

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Europe

Mr. PIGOT (fl. 1757-1759) naval surgeon. Account of a journey from Bengal to England via Persia, Arabia and Turkey, 1757-1759. Includes descriptions of travel through Europe – Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. MS.3906

James MCGRIGOR (fl.1814) Army medical officer. Letter from James McGrigor (to a fellow medical officer?), dated 2 June 1814, re travels in the south of France, and disposition of medical officers around Toulouse. RAMC326

Sir Thomas LONGMORE, Sr (fl.1820) Journal of a trip to Margate, Ramsgate and Paris, 1820. RAMC1139/L/83/1-4

Thomas HODGKIN MD (1788-1866) pathologist and philanthropist. Material found in the file of letters from Elizabeth Hodgkin to Rachel Howard but apparently related to the activities and particularly European travels of Thomas Hodgkin, 19th century, PP/HO/L/B3-45; journal of travels to Marseilles, Rome and Vienna, 1850s, PP/HO/D/A2425; papers relating to Hodgkin’s travels, 1822-1860, including Italy 1824, Austria, Egypt 1860, PP/HO/D/B101-129. PP/HO

John HODGKIN Jr (1800-1875) lawyer and philanthropist. Travel journals PP/HO/E/C/4 journal of travel from Belgium to the Alps and Italy, 1846; notes of expenses of journey to Brussels and on to Germany, 1850; sketches; notes on a tour to Paris, 1822. PP/HO

Sir John HALL (1795-1865) military surgeon. Letter book including diary entries of tours in Spain, 1838 and 1839. RAMC508

John William MUDGE MD (1817-1886) surgeon in Madras. Journal of service during the Second Burmese War, in India and of his voyage home to England, 1852-1855, during which he passed through Gibraltar and Malta. MS.7454

James Tyrrell Carter ROSS (1823-1897) surgeon and medical officer, British Army in India. Commonplace book including Ross's journal of his ‘journey home on sick furlough 1855’ 30 Aug-30 Oct 1855. Departing from Aden, the journey includes travel through Greece, Italy, Germany, France, England and Ireland. Journal also contains account of ‘our wedding tour JTCR and S[arah]R’, 26 May-1 Jun 1857, covering their stay in Paris and journey to Dijon. MS.7857

Surgeon Major Thomas WOOD (d.1884) Account of a holiday in the Lake District, including a visit to Crosthwaite Museum; some details of visits to London hospitals, and an account of a journey to Ireland, 1863-1864. RAMC351/2

Charles Brodie SEWELL M.D. (1817–1900) Physician. Sewell's travel journals of holiday tours in Switzerland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Italy, France, Norway, England, Scotland and Ireland, 1868-1892. MS.4513

Sir Thomas LEWIS (1881-1945) cardiologist. Letters to his parents and notes on a hunting trip to Norway, 1892-1910. PP/LEW/B/2

Sir Edward MELLANBY (1884–1955) and Lady May MELLANBY (1882–1978) nutritionists and physiologists. Lady Mellanby's holiday diary for Russia and Eastern Europe, 1896; photographs of South Russian oilfields, (late 19th century?); holiday photographs and postcards of Russia, (1896?) and Budapest, (undated). PP/MEL

Lionel Henry de Barri CRAWSHAY (1882-1928) botanist. Bicycling log-book. Begun in 1911, but also containing records of rides from 1900 to 1910. These geological excursions were made mainly in Surrey and Sussex, 1910-1916. MS.1912

Gustave Jules Alphonse WITKOWSKI (1844-1923) surgeon, writer and medical historian. Travel accounts and impressions, written under the pseudonym “Dr Clam”, of a journey to Europe covering Italy, Hungary, Romania, Austria and Turkey, 1901, and a journey through Italy and the Orient, 1905, with numerous inserted photographs, picture-postcards, hotel-bills, cuttings, maps, plans. MS.5806

Henry Solomon WELLCOME (1853-1936) pharmaceutical entrepreneur, philanthropist and collector. Travel diaries and associated material relating to his motor tours of Spain and Portugal, 1907-1909. Photographs taken during these trips can be found in WA/HSW/PH/C. WA/HSW/PE/A/14-15 & WA/HSW/PH/C

Louisa MARTINDALE (1872-1966) surgeon. Material generated on various visits (including holidays and tours) around England 1912, France and Germany 1915, England and Scotland 1920, Germany 1922, Germany, Prague, Italy, Switzerland, Freiburg, Frankfort, The Hague, Paris 1927-1930, London, Belgium, Austria 1931, Italy 1932, Scandinavia and Germany 1934, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 1936, Stockholm and Paris 1946. Many illustrated with picture postcards. MSS.3470-3487

Captain Peter JOHNSTON-SAINT (b.1886 ) Wellcome Historical Medical Museum curator. Travel diaries recording tours of France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Greece and Turkey, 1928-1931. See also RP/Jst/B for typed accounts of these and other tours including to Scotland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Romania, 1925-1936. WA/HMM/RP/Jst/ A/1-10 & RP/Jst/B

Professor Ronald HARE (1899–1986) bacteriologist: travel accounts illustrated with photographs and postcards of North Tyrol and Vienna, c.1929–1955. PP/HAR/A.15-16

Miss KEMP (fl.1930) Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Papers relating to her collecting trips in Yugoslavia for Henry Wellcome, including notes on local customs and beliefs, 1930. WA/HMM/RP/Kem & CM/Col/59

A. D. LACAILLE (fl.1930s-1950s) archaeologist, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Reports relating to his travels on collecting tours for Henry Wellcome including to Scotland, France, Spain and Italy, 1932-1959. WA/HMM/RP/Lac

Robert Alexander MCCANCE (1898-1993) nutritionist. Letter to McCance dated 1975 enclosing transcript of friend's diary of trip to Lofoten Islands, Norway, with McCance in 1938. GC/97/D/2/6

Sir Graham Selby WILSON (1895-1987) microbiologist. Section F contains records of a number of overseas trips in an advisory capacity for the World Health Organisation, including to Poland via Czechoslovakia 1949, Sweden 1958, Portugal 1966, USSR 1960s. PP/GSW/F

George MACDONALD (1903-1967) malariologist. Files relating to various tours, missions, and visits (including to Cyprus and Sardinia) undertaken by Macdonald mainly in connection with malaria eradication etc.,1948-1966, in Section C. PP/MAC

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897–1989) anaesthetist. Travel diaries for Poland and Russia, 1956, Moscow, 1959, East Germany, 1966, Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1967; travel notes on Russia, 1954-1960; lectures on Russia and USSR, 1950s–1960s; negatives and lecture slides of Russia and USSR, 1959–1960. Plus visits to Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Ireland, Cyprus and Greece. 1950-1960s. PP/RRM

Robert Henry Stewart THOMPSON (1912-1998) biochemist. Travel diaries of visits to Moscow, 1956, 1960, 1961. PP/RHT/A/3

Carlos Paton BLACKER (1895-1975) psychiatrist. Blacker’s ‘Year summaries’ including ‘Visit to Greece 1957, ‘Bird holiday – Holland’ 1958, ‘Torquay revisited’ 1960, ‘Colonsay’ (Scotland) 1961 and 1963. PP/CPB/A/6

Siegmund Heinrich FOULKES (1898-1976) psychoanalyst and pioneer of group analytic psychotherapy. Papers relating to his travels in Greece, Italy and Israel, 1965. Also, travel diaries of his second wife Kilmeny (‘Kim’) Foulkes (neé Graham) including trips to France, Germany, Ibiza (Spain), Italy and Switzerland, 1950s. PP/SHF/A/D/4 & PP/SHF/A/E/3/2-5

Sir Christopher ANDREWES (1896–1989) virologist. Travel journal of mostly professional trips to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Italy, 1950s-early 1960s. GC/168

Stanley George BROWNE (1907-1986) leprologist. Journals of ‘Foreign Visits and Travels’ representing or commissioned by various leprosy organisations. They form day-to-day accounts of his activities, personal and work related, on each visit, notably including details of the itinerary, the visits, talk, seminar, lecture, etc., opinions on conferences and papers given, comments on scenery and other thoughts. The books often also contain loose papers such as schedules, invitations, notes, letters, notices, notes from his wife Mali, leaflets, tourist brochures, maps, programmes of service, local church newsletters, ephemera such as airline tickets, and occasionally photographs and postcards. On some trips he was accompanied by Mali. Include visits to Greece 1975, Belgium 1978, Switzerland 1984-1985, and Germany 1970s and 1980s. Journals are in section H.5 (see also H.6) and cover 1962-1985. WTI/SGB/H

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Africa: East

Africa: Southern Africa

Africa: West Africa

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America: North America

America: South America

*For a guide on health tourism see the sources guide I Came Here for the Waters: Sources on Health Tourism

*For a guide on photographic images of places see the sources guide Topographical Photographs

*See the Royal Army Medical Corps collection (RAMC) for diaries written by servicemen overseas which may contain some notes on the countries visited or stationed at, the local people and customs.

* See the Wellcome Foundation archive for business reports on visits to all parts of the globe in the 20th century (WF/C/E/01, 04-06). Some of these contain general comments on the countries and people and the places visited.

*To ensure capture of any relevant documents and ones recently catalogued it is recommended to search on the following words and their plurals: travel; journal; voyage; trip; visit; diary; expedition; holiday; vacation; travelogue.

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