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Title	Women's Travel Diaries
View collection at	http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/womenstraveldiaries/
Description	Highlights from this collection include diaries by two American women missionaries. Mary McCornack Thompson was a Presbyterian missionary and teacher with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in South Africa. Thompson's diaries document all five of her missionary trips to Africa (1887-1933). Mary McMillan's journals span more than 40 years, and document her work as a United Methodist missionary and teacher at Hiroshima Jo Gakuin College. McMillan's early journals provide accounts of her adaptation to life in pre-World War II Japan.
Subject	Pacifists Social life and Customs Women missionaries Women teachers Women travelers
Place	Japan United States
Time Period	1860-1879 1880-1899 1900-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 19th century 20th century
Publisher	Duke University Libraries
Primary Sources	Diaries Manuscripts

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