Papers, 1849-1858.

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Papers, 1849-1858.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86165557

Present are a book of travel expenses, 1849, 1856-1858, and a travel diary, 1855-1856, of a Grand Tour to the Continent, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Crimea, and Greece. In Jerusalem, he visited Warder Cresson, a former Quaker from Philadelphia who had converted to Judaism and was an early Zionist. Blight also decribes the battlefields and veterans of the Crimean War.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Blight, Atherton, 1834-1909

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Blight attended school in Philadelphia, graduated from Harvard, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, and spent much of his adult life in Newport, R.I., and in Europe. From the description of Papers, 1849-1858. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 86165557 ...

Cresson, Warder, 1798-1860

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