The diaries, reminiscences and letters of Loanza Goulding Benton (Mrs. William Austin Benton) and William Austin Benton, DD., missionaries to Syria, 1847-1869
Contributors: Benton, William Austin, 1818-1874; Potter, Miriam Clark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Missionaries; Biography; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Notes: Title from cover.

Mimeograph typescripts compiled by Miriam Clark Potter, .

ABC 76 Benton. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The Bentons were missionaries at Aleppo, Syria; Beirut, Lebanon; and other places in the same area.
Table of contents: title: Biographical sketch (3-8c)  -- prepared by her granddaughter Miriam Clark Potter; title: Diary of Loanza Goulding Benton, October 28, 1847, Beirut, Syria - November 27, 1851 (10-54) --; title: Recollections  -- by Loanza Goulding Benton (56-144); title: Grandfather's captivity and escape  -- by Mrs. L.G. Benton (reprinted from "The Northwestern Congregationalist") (145-150); title: The diary of Rev. William Austin Benton, DD during his years at Williams College and at Yale and some of his letters during his years as a missionary to Syria ([150]-267) --; title: William A. Benton's journal 1839-[44] (151-207) --; title: From the back of the diary: miscellaneous loose sheets ([207]-267).