Journals of Lilla Viles Wyman, 1893

Scope and Contents Includes eight small notebooks (May-October 1893) detailing Lilla Viles Wyman's travels to and sojourns in Lake Placid, New York, and New York City. Diary entries include accounts of sightseeing, theater, ballet lessons from Mamert Bibeyran, and discussions of dressmaking and fashion; programs, sketches, and swatches of fabric are included. Other topics include traveling by boat from Fall River, Massachusetts, to New York, New York; searching for housing in New York, New York; unhappiness,...