Includes diary in an unknown hand, 1789. Mentions a number of prominent people including Horace Walpole, Mlle. D'Eon, Mrs. Garrick, and others. Daily entries about her life and social contacts, records purchases of ribbons, rollers, glvoes, etc
Description:
Plates wanting., Signatures: [A]-N⁶., Inscribed on flyleaf: "Given me by the Honble. Col. Cosmos Gordon. Margate, Nov. ye. 21st 1788.", and In bibliographical file: two slips of paper, one with names of people mentioned and page references, and the other with a single name: Louisa Paoline Angelina Cosway (aet. 8). 1789-96.
Manuscript journal, unsigned, of Laura Angeline Munson Keller documenting sea voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to Port Townsend, Washington, 1858 September 25-1859 March 28. Includes account of life aboard the Toando schooner with emphasis on daily activities, homesickness, and passenger illnesses. There are also entries documenting Keller's time in Victoria, British Columbia, and Port Gamble, Washington, 1859 April 1-June 5, as well as one later entry, 1860 March 25.
Description:
Laura Angeline Munson Keller (1837-1877) of Whiting, Washington, was married to Captain Albert W. Keller (1832-1914). She, along with her husband's family, traveled from Boston, Massachusetts, to Port Townsend, Washington, aboard the Toando, 1858 September 25-1859 March 30., Purchased from Michael Ginsberg on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2011., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Port Gamble (Wash.)--Description and travel, Port Townsend (Wash.)--Description and travel, and Victoria (B.C.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Keller, Albert W., 1832-1914, Keller, Laura Angeline Munson, 1837-1877, and Toando (Schooner)
Subject (Topic):
Ocean travel, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Women--West (U.S.)
Manuscript journal from September 1843 to April 1844, 1843-1844
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Image depicts the twenty-two states of the Swiss Confederation of 1843 or 1844, the different types of dress found among the people of these regions, and the traveling distances between those regions.
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland --Description and travel --1800-1850, Switzerland --Ethnic relations, Switzerland --History --1830-1848, Switzerland --History --19th century, and Switzerland --Politics and government --19th century
Autograph diary of a tour through Germany and Italy, with a return voyage by way of Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar, taken by Trollope between September 1843 and April 1844 in the company of his friend Edward Davies. Trollope describes travel arrangements; monuments, works of art, and various tourist sights, particularly in Rome; church services attended and sermons heard; flowers and trees; shipboard activities; the quarantine of his steamer at Ryde; and the weather. He concludes his account by noting that ""I have seen quite enough to be able to value and prize the Institutions of our own country more than those I have left behind.""
Description:
40 etched, lithographed and aquatinted prints (3 hand-colored) of various subjects, including 5 of Malta. Several bills, tickets, passes and newspaper clippings pasted in, including an article on ""The Ghetto at Rome"" from Jewish Records), September 1857 (
Subject (Geographic):
Coblentz (Germany) and Ehrenbreitstein (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Boats and boating, Coast defenses, Fortification, Tourism, Travelers, and Travelers writings, English
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
For fuller description see Orbis record. and Unpaginated, many blank pages. Mileage logs, etc. interspersed.
Subject (Geographic):
New Mexico --History --War with Mexico, 1845-1848 --Personal narratives, Santa Cruz Tlaxcala (Mexico), Santa Fe (N.M.) --Description and travel, and United States. Army --Military life
Subject (Name):
Price, Sterling, 1809-1867 and Zuni Indians
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America --Arizona, Indians of North America --New Mexico, Josephine (Brig), Mexican War, 1846-1848 --Campaigns, and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Manuscript, in a single hand with many corrections , excisions, and pasted-in additions, of a diary recording a journey to Belgium coinciding with the Battle of Waterloo. The author, traveling with her brother John and sister Jane, as well as Sir Neil Campbell, Knight of Elba; Major Wiley, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington; and Mr. Littleship, an English merchant, records her journey by steam packet from Ramsgate to Ostend on June 10, 1815. She describes their difficulty convincing the sentry to allow them to enter the garrison of Ostend; praises their hotel once they arrive; visits Ghent; and finds Brussels "new and amusing." She breakfasts with Major Llewellyn in Brussels two hours before the Battle of Waterloo, and the remainder of the diary consists of a description of her experience during the battle, including her and her companions' efforts to dine and sightsee without mentioning public events; their attempts to obtain information about the battle's progress; the exodus from Brussels by "masters and servants, ladies and stableboys, valets and soldiers"; and reports of the battle's outcome and After the battle, she is evacuated to the Netherlands, where she comments unfavorably on the character and habits of the Dutch inhabitants. Several weeks later, she returns to Brussels and visits Waterloo
Description:
Charlotte Ann (Waldie) Eaton (1788-1859) was a writer. In June 1815 she visited Brussels, the headquarters of Wellington's army, with her brother John and sister Jane. Her account of the battle was first published as Circumstantial Detail By a Near Observer in The Battle of Waterloo (1815). In 1817, her family published a more extended account based on her own experiences titled Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, During the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an Englishwoman. In 1820, after a visit to Italy, she anonymously published the popular and acclaimed Rome in the Nineteenth Century. Her other published works include The Days of Battle, later published as Waterloo Days; Continental Adventures; and At Home and Abroad., In English., Written on page removed from volume: Journal of Four Months' Absence from England, in the Summer of 1815: including a Tour in Flanders, Holland, and France., Written on title page: Narrative of a few days' residence in Belgium, in June 1815. and of a visit to the Field of Waterloo. by an Englishwoman., Pasted on flyleaf: Lubbok Bookbinder St. N. C. Yd. Newcastle., Bookplate of Charles Edward Thynne Eaton and signature of Wilfred Eaton, 1897 on the title-page., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: half morocco over marbled boards; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Eaton, Charlotte A. 1788-1859. (Charlotte Anne),, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Waldie, John, 1781-1862., and Watts, Jane (Waldie), 1793-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Description and travel, and Women authors
