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In October 1899 William and Nora Wells embarked with their children and a few friends on a journey to the Old World. In Berlin Nora bought a pocket "Tagebuch" or day book and began recording her impressions of the trip. The journal starts in Berlin and ends in December 1900 as their ship is approaching New York. As the trip went on she pasted little mementos of their trip into the journal. They set sail on October 14, 1899, and reached the English Channel on the 24th.