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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased with funds from the Frances Randolph Howard Endowment.

Biographical / Historical

Rev. George Whitefield Bosworth (1818-1888) was a Baptist minister at Free Street Church in Portland, Maine, where he also served as president of the Maine Baptist Missionary Society.

Scope and Contents

Travel diary for Baptist minister and missionary, George Whitefield Bosworth of Portland, Maine. Leather-bound, monogrammed diary consists of detailed accounts of travels through Europe and Africa, with trips down the Nile River and into the Sinai Desert. Also contains contemplation on religious institutions and belief systems, specifically Islam and Roman Catholicism as they pertain to Bosworth's New England Protestantism. Smaller, cover-less journal recounts "a tout through the Desert, Palestine, Syria, Turkey And up to the Danube."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Egypt--Description and travel
• Europe -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918
• Religious institutions
• United States -- Religion -- 19th century