""Notes during a journey to Edinbro in July & August 1822.""
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Travel diary followed by an account of a journey from London to the West Country and back in 1824 (28 p.) and includes a few recipes at the end (8 p.); describes a meeting with Robert Owen (1771-1858) and the arrival in Edinburgh of George IV, king of Gt.
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849. The journal is accompanied by three photographs of Sarah Davis.
Description:
46v-47r, 68v-72r blank. Blanks not digitized. and The journal is difficult to read due to the faint pencil lead and the handwriting.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Davis, Sarah Green
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific, Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849, and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1850
Autograph manuscript essay in an unidentified hand, written during the late nineteenth century. Written on the blank leaves of the "Protocol Book of Alexander Wood, Writer to the Signet, Notary public and Son of Alexr. Wood Surgeon ... " (inscription on f
Doylestown (Penn.), New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe (N.M.)
Collection Created:
William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)