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King, Jonas, 1792-1869. Diary, 1823.

Title: Diary, 1823.

This travel diary, 1823, records King's travels from Cairo to Jerusalem and surrounding religious sites as the first missionary of the Paris Missionary Society, which was founded in 1822 with the aid of S. V. S. Wilder. In the first portion of the diary King describes his journey through the oppressively hot desert with a caravan of 100 Arabs, Armenians, and Turks and a contaminated water supply. The latter portion of the diary comprises a colorful account of King's visits to biblical sites such as the Garden of Gethsemane, the Mount of Olives, the Holy Sepulchre, Bethany, and Christ's birthplace in Bethlehem. King frequently met with prominent Jewish, Moslem, and Catholic religious leaders to whom he distributed Arabic, Persian, or Greek translations of the New Testament as part of his unsuccessful attempts to Christianize them. It can be discerned from King's account of these meetings that he was quite critical of the customs and beliefs of the various religious sects with which he came into contact. He referred to the Greek celebration of Passover as a "Bacchanalian feast" and recommended "fire and brimstone" for a pasha whose lifestyle he found offensive. He believed that "Jerusalem is now possessed by a nation that withers it."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (88 leaves) ; octavo.

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Wilder, Sampson Vryling Stoddard, 1780-1865. Papers, 1634-1932.

Title: Papers, 1634-1932.

This collection contains a variety of items concerning Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder, 1634-1932. Included are early legal documents (e.g., land deeds) belonging to his ancestors, letters written by him to his daughters concerning family events, such as his golden wedding anniversary, and several typed accounts of life in the Wilder Mansion in Bolton, recalled and prepared by his grandson, Francis Stoddard Haines ( - ) in 1932. Of special note are three letters pertaining to Wilder's experiences in France during the Napoleonic period. There is a letter of introduction witten by Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) to Talleyrand in 1804, an eight-page letter written by Wilder to his wife describing conditions in Paris on the eve of Napoleon's surrender in 1815, and a letter written to him in French by Baron de Staël-Holstein (1790-1827), which had been accompanied by a gift of the works of his mother, Madame de Staël (1766-1817).

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (16 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207180542 View