![]() ![]() Few American women journeyed to present-day Pakistan and India as the founder of the country’s largest girls’ leadership organization and her companions did, unaccompanied by men. Low’s work is an excellent example of an early 20th-century woman’s travel journal. ![]() Her accounts document visits to Madurai, Madras, Calcutta, Benares, Lahore, Delhi, and Bombay. Low wrote letters to her family describing her experiences and impressions and, using carbon paper, copied the pages into a journal. Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA her 18-year-old niece Elizabeth Parker and another friend, Grace Carter, traveled throughout northern India and parts of what is now Pakistan in 1908. It is available online thanks in part to the DLG’s Competitive Digitization grant program, a funding opportunity intended to broaden DLG partner participation for statewide historic digitization projects. The collection, Juliette Gordon Low Correspondence, Series India Letters, belongs to Girl Scouts of the USA and is housed at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of Juliette Gordon Low’s 1908 India travel correspondence at. ![]()
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