A rhapsodic account by a Virginia minister of an overnight excursion to Virginia’s famous Peaks of Otter. The Peaks of Otter—embracing the three peaks of Sharp Top, Flat Top and Harkening Hill—are located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and for a time were thought to be, as Thomas Jefferson wrote.....
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 sites 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 Hornet, famously described by Mark Twain in the Sacramento Daily Union after it burned and sank 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.....