A letter written aboard the steamer Natchez from Vicksburg to New Orleans in 1885, describing events and conversations on board as well as the countryside, agriculture, and Civil War sights along the route. This letter from New York State apple grower Silas Seward Hopkins is written on Natchez letterhead showing.....
An interesting fair-copy manuscript account of an 1883 American tour by English carpet manufacturer William Horsfall with his wife and niece, chronicling their visits to Connecticut, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, New York City, New Hampshire and Boston. William Horsall was a manager of Naylor’s Carpet Factory in Kidderminster, located in the.....
Two manuscript journals in one volume of Maine ship captain Josiah Mitchell (1812?–1876), best known as Captain of the burned and sunken ship Hornet, famously described by Mark Twain in the Sacramento Daily Union in 1866. Documented in these sea journals are the two angst-filled final voyages of Captain.....
A delightfully written and richly illustrated journal and scrapbook chronicling a bike tour undertaken by four friends through England and Scotland, written and compiled by a young American woman completing her doctoral thesis in English literature. “This journal starts properly with two soaked, blistered, dust-blown, bedraggled travellers pulling up to.....
A substantive letter by a native of New York State writing from Georgia who was headed to Florida, referencing the Second Seminole War (1835–42) and offering an eye-witness description and opinions of a slave auction in downtown Augusta. Justin Shapley (?–1892) opens this letter to his family back home in.....