Black, Jeanie
Groome.
Jeanie
Groome Black travel diaries1890 October 13–1891 November 8
MSS 097, Item
004
3 v. ;
23 cm. or smaller
These three bound diaries were kept by Delaware resident Jeannie Groome Black during her travels in
Europe with a group of ten Delawareans from October 13, 1890, to November 25, 1891.
Materials entirely in
English.
University of Delaware
Library -
Special Collections
Source
Purchase, 1957.
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Citation
MSS 097, Item 004, Jeanie
Groome Black travel diaries, Special Collections, University of
Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelving Summary
- Item 004: Shelved in SPEC MSS 097
Processing
Processed and encoded by Evan Echols, January 2009.
Biographical Note
Jeanie Groome Black was a resident of New Castle, Delaware, during
the late-nineteenth century.
Her spouse was John Janvier Black, surgeon and resident
physician to Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia. She had two children, Elizabeth Groome Black
and Armitage Middleton Black.
Biographical information derived from the collection.
Scope and Content Note
These three bound diaries were kept by Delaware resident Jeannie Groome Black during her travels in
Europe with a group of ten Delawareans from October 13, 1890, to November 25, 1891.
The group left on October 15, 1890, from New York City, on the steamer S.S. Friesland of the Red Star Line for Antwerp, Belgium, and returned to New York fourteen months later on the City of Paris, which departed from Liverpool, England on November 25, 1891. Along with Jeannie Groome Black, other travelers in the party included Mrs. James G. Knowles; Miss
Mattie Knowles; Mrs. Margaret Lea and her daughter, Miss Sue Cummins; and Mrs.
Margaret Beasten. There are occasional
references to prominent Delawareans, including Senator George Gray, whose
daughter, Miss Nannie Gray, accompanied Mrs. Black and her children Elizabeth and
Armitage. Senator Gray and his wife traveled to Paris in July 1891, to spend the summer with their daughter and the other people in the party.
The diaries hold botanical specimens (including red clover, ivy, and violets)
pressed between the pages as well as cuttings from hotel letterheads, news clippings, and
other memorabilia, all of which was collected from visits to Antwerp, Frankfurt, Paris,
Nuremberg, Venice, Geneva, London, and other European cities. The volume also contains newspaper clippings noting the deaths of Delaware residents known by Black.
Selected Search Terms
Personal Names
Gray, George,
1840-1925.
Topical Terms
Plants--Type specimens.
Geographic Names
Europe--Description and travel--19th Century--Sources.
Germany--Description and travel--19th Century--Sources.Paris (France)--Description and travel--19th Century--Sources.
Form/Genre Terms
Diaries.
Specimens.
Related Materials in this Repository
This item forms part of MSS 097 Diaries, Journals, and
Ships' Logs collection.
MSS 221, John Janvier Black
papers
Detailed Contents List
v. 1
Nuremberg1890 October 13–1891 April 6
v. 2Paris1891 July
v. 3
Paris1891 October