Olive Moore Gambrill travel diary

This collection contains Miss Moore's travel diary, along with a complete, 18-page transcription. The first page of the diary contains notes for her class schedule in Geneva, while the remainder of the volume is a day-by-day description of her days abroad, from August 17 to September 15, 1928. The remainder of the diary contains blank pages; however, there is a single photographic post card of The Hague Peace Palace slipped into the back cover pocket.

Miss Moore provides rich descriptions of her travels in France and Switzerland, as well as the "School of International Relations", where she studied. She notes that the "instructors are there engaged in the actual study of the problems on which they talk and hence there is a reality in their treatment which the average glib middle man teacher fails to achieve." While attending lectures and traveling, she also had the opportunity to observe the Assembly of the League of Nations. One notable event included the resignation of John Basset Moore as Judge of the Permanent Court of the League. Moore also describes a Tuesday meeting of the League, where the "chief interest [was] Lord Cushendun's speech, an old fashioned conservative British Victorian eulogy...sonorous but little said."

Olive Moore ends her diary in a reflective mood, writing, "If only trite words could recapture sensations and experiences. They cannot and so one cannot pass on the multiple experience, some minor but all of interest, which opens new doors."