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Robert Hunter journal of an English Traveler
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A daily record of a journey by horseback, stage, and packet from Virginia to New England and return. The subject matter contains a description of the roads, the countryside, crops; business conditions in the cities visited, prices of food and lodging, political conditions, war prepartions in Boston, church services and political meetings; descriptions of the layout of cities and buildings; references to prominent persons and others whom he met en route; mentions the annoucement of "the dreadful news of the comencement of the war by the affair of Lexington" April 27, while in Baltimore.
mssHM 818
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During a little over two years in America, Weld was often guided by Indians in his explorations of the vast forests and great rivers. But as a gentleman traveler he mixed in the best society while in the towns and met George Washington. His descriptions were influential because they were relatively early and were long included in compilations of travelers' reports on the United States despite his general lack of sympathy with the American patriots. In 1795, Weld found himself distressed with the conditions in Europe and set out on a fact-finding mission to North America to ascertain whether in case of future emergency, any part of those territories might be looked forward to, as an eligible and agreeable place of abode. He traveled through the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. He then traveled to Montreal and Quebec along the St. Lawrence to Kingston and Niagara.
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During a little over two years in America, Weld was often guided by Indians in his explorations of the vast forests and great rivers. But as a gentleman traveler he mixed in the best society while in the towns and met George Washington. His descriptions were influential because they were relatively early and were long included in compilations of travelers' reports on the United States despite his general lack of sympathy with the American patriots. In 1795, Weld found himself distressed with the conditions in Europe and set out on a fact-finding mission to North America to ascertain whether in case of future emergency, any part of those territories might be looked forward to, as an eligible and agreeable place of abode. He traveled through the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. He then traveled to Montreal and Quebec along the St. Lawrence to Kingston and Niagara.
71023
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Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.
mssHM 82902
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The log book and shipboard journal, kept by First Lieutenant William M. Hunter on board the USS Franklin, begins on August 15, 1821 while the ship was in New York harbor waiting to set sail and ends August 26, 1824, shortly before the ship's return to New York. The log book includes all the usual information including daily entries listing the course of the ship, the ship's position, weather conditions, water remains, sick reports, and interactions with other ships. Hunter also comments often on the schooner Dolphin and its captain, David Conner, as it was accompanying the Franklin on its journey. It also includes several lengthy entries by Hunter detailing ports of call such as: Arica and Valparaíso, Chile; Callao, Peru; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Juan Fernández Islands. In these entries he talks about the activities of the crew, meeting local dignitaries, and even mentions Captain Stewart's wife Delia who was also on the voyage. Hunter also comments upon various aspects of the wars of independence against Spain including ships of the Chilean Navy returning from an engagement with Royalists and an attack on Arica, an "undefended town," by a Peruvian ship. The log book also includes 11 sketches by Hunter of various cities and places in South America and a larger chart of Cumberland Bay, also by Hunter, which is folded up and in the log book. The Watch, Quarter and Station bill for the USS Franklin is dated May 1824.
mssHM 70856-70857
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The collection consists of ten letters to Roberts and a receipt for payments by Roberts to Sumner Black Coal, an Arapaho. The authors of the letters include Reverend Franklin Spalding, Missionary Bishop of Colorado; Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming, and Idaho; Reverend J. B. Funsten; and George H. Sands, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry and commanding officer at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The correspondence deals with affairs on the reservation, its residents, staff, and finances. More specifically, Reverend Franklin Spalding asks about the progress of Sherman Coolidge, an Arapaho priest and John Roberts' assistant.
mssHM 83982-83992