![Item #7367 [Manuscript journal of a trip from Colorado to California.]. Castello Mrs, Sarah...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7367_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715098925)
A brief but informative record of a young woman’s journey to California with her mother and new husband during the Civil War, including a striking postscript written forty-four years later. Sarah Elizabeth Shockey was born in Ohio in 1843, and married James H. Castello (1837–1924) in Denver, Colorado in January.....
![Item #9165 [Two-volume photo-illustrated journal documenting a trip to Europe.]. Aurilla Scott...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9165_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742490764)
Two journals—with original photos and clippings—containing unusually intelligent and descriptive accounts of the tourist experience in Western Europe just after the turn of the century, written by a meticulously observant disabled woman traveling with her husband and adult daughters. The tour recorded in these journals takes Aurilla Fenton, her husband.....
![Item #9741 [Diaries of an independent business woman originally from Bath, Maine.]. Mary Wood...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9741_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778179489)
Three diaries by an intelligent woman who ran her own store in Newburyport, Massachusetts after separating from her husband, recording the beginning of her business, family and sightseeing visits over the years to Philadelphia, Boston, Walpole, New Hampshire, and her hometown of Bath, Maine, and more. The diaries offered here.....
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 Horsfall was a manager of Naylor’s Carpet Factory in Kidderminster, located in the.....
A vivid eyewitness account of a nearly disastrous stagecoach accident in upstate New York, in which—miraculously—no lives were lost. Solomon Sherwood Kimball (1806–1890) was traveling with his wife Emily Ann (1823–1917) via stagecoach from Epserance, New York to Albany and then New York City when the accident occurred. Writing to.....
![Item #9394 [Journal of a voyage to Madeira.]. Captain David Lynn](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9394_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742327093)
An eighteenth-century journal recording the nine-month stay in Madeira of a former Revolutionary War officer, written in the immediate wake of American independence, including his observations of life on the island and a detailed account of his illness and the variety of attempted cures. Captain David Lynn sailed from Maryland.....
A Connecticut school-teacher’s account of his experiences in an early South African diamond field, written several years after his return and blending passages from his original journal with rich and engaging descriptions of mining, camp life, extraordinary incidents, his interactions with Xhosa and Khoekhoe laborers, and his arduous voyages to.....