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| Crouthamel, James L. “TOCQUEVILLE'S SOUTH.” Journal of the Early Republic 1982 2(4): 381-401.
Abstract: During their nine-month stay in America, 1831-32, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont de la Bonniniere spent only nine weeks traversing the South. The descriptions of the region which appeared in Tocqueville's Democracy in America were not the judicious observations of an unbiased chronicler. Prior to their excursion, Tocqueville filled his travel notebooks with the observations of itinerants, businessmen, and politicians who expounded on the debilitating effects of slavery on the southern character. While Tocqueville intuitively grasped the problems presented by the sectional struggle for balance of power and by Indian removal and slavery, his apparent bias toward democracy in the free states, his lack of interest in the South as a region, and his failure to observe slavery first hand flaw his study of American democracy. * Period: 1831-40. Brandow, James C. “A BARBADOS PLANTER'S VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1837: THE JOURNAL OF NATHANIEL T. W. CARRINGTON.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1982 106(3): 411-412. Abstract: Reproduces the only travel account of the United States and Canada by a Barbadian, who spent five days in Philadelphia, of which he gives vivid glimpses of everyday life. * Period: 1837. Brandow, James C. “THE JOURNAL OF NATHANIEL T. W. CARRINGTON: A BARBADOS PLANTER'S VISIT TO NOVA SCOTIA IN 1837.” Nova Scotia Historical Review [Canada] 1982 2(2): 25-39. Abstract: Nathaniel T. W. Carrington (1801-55) with his wife and son toured Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Boston, and Philadelphia in 1837. His impressions of Nova Scotia are excerpted from his daily journal for June and July of that year. * Period: 1837. Rosenthal, Eric. “THE CAPE IN 1818: A NEW DESCRIPTION FOUND BY ERIC ROSENTHAL.” Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library [South Africa] 1982 36(4): 114-123. Abstract: Excerpts from an account of a visit to the Cape Colony in 1818 by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838), French-German botanist and poet. * Period: 1815-20. Smith, Frasier. “WHEELING IN 1806: A SUMMARY OF A PORTION OF THE BOOK TRAVELS IN AMERICA BY THOMAS ASHE, ESQ., PUBLISHED IN LONDON IN 1808, PERTAINING TO THE WHEELING AREA.” Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review 1982 12(1): 18-22. * Period: 1806. Lightbown, R. W. “BRITISH VIEWS OF INDIA.” History Today [Great Britain] 1982 32(July): 23-27. Abstract: Although the British began trading with India in the early 1600's, it was not until the late 18th century that the British began traveling in India with an interest in Indian art, religion, and social customs. * Period: 17c-18c. Tromp, Heimerick, introd.; Newby, Evelyn, transl. “A DUTCHMAN'S VISITS TO SOME ENGLISH GARDENS IN 1791: EXTRACTS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED JOURNAL OF BARON JOHAN FREDERIK WILLEM VAN SPAEN VAN BILJOEN, WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY HEIMERICK TROMP.” Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 1982 2(1): 41-58. Abstract: The diary of Baron J. F. W. van Spaen van Biljoen (1746-1827) of the Netherlands contains observations of his trip to London and southern England in 1791 with his stepfather-in-law, Baron W. C. H. van Lynden van Blitterswijk, and describes a number of English gardens. * Period: 1770's-1791. Ledyard, Gari. “HONG TAEYONG AND HIS PEKING MEMOIR.” Korean Studies 1982 6: 63-103. Abstract: Hong Taeyong's (1731-83) experiences as an aide to the Korean solstitial embassy to China in 1765 and 1766 are reported in the four-volume Peking Memoir and two-volume Kanching Brush Talks. In them he describes the people he met, the sights he saw, both in Peking and on the road, and his observations of Chinese society. His sharp eye and descriptive skill coupled with an assertive personality make his detailed memoirs valuable accounts of 18th-century China. Hong's other writings, particularly those on science and statecraft, reveal an iconoclastic mind. The Peking Memoir is the most coherent example of the Peking diary genre. A detailed study, however, awaits the resolution of numerous textual problems. * Period: 1760-80. Ghosh, Pranabendra Nath. “COMTE DE MODAVE'S ACCOUNT OF BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1982 22(3): 3-20. Abstract: Translation with commentary of excerpts from the description by Louis Laurent de Federbe, Comte de Modave, of his journey through Bengal in 1773 and 1774. Modave's account was a major contribution to the European understanding of Bengal and East Indian geography. Basically Modave's analysis of Bengal was negative; he found conditions for supporting human life to be lamentable. * Period: 1773-74. Pankhurst, Richard, ed. “THE VISIT TO ETHIOPIA OF JOHANNES T'OVMACEAN, AN ARMENIAN JEWELLER, IN 1764-66.” Journal of Ethiopian Studies [Ethiopia] 1982 15: 79-104. Abstract: A translation of an 18th-century travel account in Ethiopia. * Period: 1764-66. Boucher, M. “FOREIGNERS AT THE CAPE FROM MENTZEL TO LA CAILLE, 1737-1753.” Kleio [South Africa] 1982 14(1-2): 70-78. Abstract: A chronicle of maritime activities, mostly from ships' logs, around the Cape of Good Hope and Capetown, South Africa, supplementing O. F. Mentzel's 18th-century A Geographical and Topographical Description of the Cape of Good Hope (republished 1921-44), his Life at the Cape in Mid-Eighteenth Century (1919), and N. L. La Caille's Travels at The Cape, 1751-53 (1976). * Period: 1737-53. Corte, Robert S. “THE CELEBRATED WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS OF GREENBRIER: NINETEENTH CENTURY TRAVEL ACCOUNTS.” West Virginia History 1981 42(3-4): 191-221. Abstract: The 19th-century travel accounts by Harriet Martineau, "Viator," John H. B. Latrobe, "Peregrine Prolix," and "Mark Pencil" chronicle the rise of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, from a remote place to a fashionable antebellum spa. Discusses its decline and notes the influence of the railroads, and of Henry Clay, James Calwell, Major Baylis Anderson, and Robert E. Lee. * Period: 1808-1910. Clough, Wilson O. “BY SHIP TO CALIFORNIA, 1859: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF LOUIS SIMONIN.” Pacific Historian 1981 25(3): 15-21. Abstract: Louis Simonin, a 29-year-old French mining engineer, travelled from New York to San Francisco in 1859. His journals record his experiences on the voyage, his reactions to fellow travelers, comments on the geography, climate, social structure, and flora and fauna. His comments were combined in a book published in 1867. * Period: 1859. Tibesar, Antonine. “RAPHAEL MARIA TAUREL, PAPAL CONSUL GENERAL IN LIMA, PERU, IN 1853: REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN PERU.” Inter-American Review of Bibliography 1981 31(1): 36-69. Abstract: Raphael Maria Taurel, a Frenchman and converted Jew, went to Peru in 1846 or 1850 to promote the sale of French goods, especially silks. He was a keen observer and author of pamphlets. He became friendly with the clergy in Peru and, returning to Europe in 1851, arranged to be named papal consul general in Lima. He died 30 January 1853, during his return voyage, and his goods were confiscated and auctioned by the Peruvian government. His copy of a report to the Vatican on the state of the Catholic Church in Peru, evidently written while in Rome, appeared in El Comercio (Lima) 14-18 February 1853. The Spanish text of the newspaper version is given. * Period: 1846-53. Warner, Brian. “GEORGE THOMPSON'S VISIT TO THE CANGO CAVES.” Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library [South Africa] 1981 36(1): 10-16. Abstract: George Thompson's exploration of the Cango Caves in 1822 has been commented upon by Professor Vernon Forbes who used as his source a ghost written account of Thompson's journey titled Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa. However, Thompson published a previously unknown account of the same event in an 1823 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Science. Travels and Adventures . . . may combine two separate visits to Cango by Thompson, while the Quarterly Journal account probably was written soon after the first visit and may therefore be a more reliable source. * Period: 1822-45. Fetherling, Doug. “THE ECONOMY OF EARLY WHEELING AS SEEN THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES.” Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review 1981 10(2): 3-8. Abstract: Reprints excerpts from the travel journals of Europeans on their observations of Wheeling, West Virginia's early economy: French botanist Francois-Andre Michaux in 1802, Frenchman Edouard de Montule in 1817, Englishman William Cobbett in 1816, Charles Dickens in 1842, Mrs. Frances Trollope in 1827, and English traveler Charles Augustus Murray in 1834. * Period: 1802-42. Goodrich, James W. “GOTTFRIED DUDEN: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MISSOURI PROMOTER.” Missouri Historical Review 1981 75(2): 131-146. Abstract: Gottfried Duden (1785-1855) was a civil servant in Germany who viewed his country's chaotic economic and political conditions as the result of overpopulation. After finding lttle information on America, Duden decided to find out for himself. He came to Baltimore in 1824 and worked his way west to Missouri, where he lived in present-day Warren County until 1827. He finally returned to Europe in 1827. He had written many letters, and he now produced a Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (1829). This idyllic report of the safety, democracy, and easy road to success to be found in America proved to be a decisive factor in drawing many Germans to the United States, particularly to Missouri. * Period: 1824-29. Trautman, Frederick. “NEW YORK THROUGH GERMAN EYES: THE TRAVELS OF LUDWIG GALL, 1819.” New York History 1981 62(4): 439-461. Abstract: Reproduces and comments on the first English translation of a German visitor's description of New York and its people in 1819-20. The description appears in an account of Ludwig Gall's travels in America, published in Trier in 1822. It reflects Gall's disenchantment with the country he had thought was the refuge of the oppressed of Europe. Gall had intended to promote German emigration to America, but changed his mind because of the panic of 1819 and because of his impression that Americans were greedy and cheated foreigners. The description also reveals Gall's interest in American technology, steamships, architecture, and the New York canal project. * Period: 1819-20. Trautman, Frederick. “NEW YORK THROUGH GERMAN EYES: THE TRAVELS OF LUDWIG GALL, 1819.” New York History 1981 62(4): 439-461. Abstract: This is the first English translation of a German visitor's description of New York and its people in 1819. Published in 1822, the description, part of Ludwig Gall's travel account of America, expressed disenchantment with the country that Gall had thought was the refuge of the oppressed of Europe. Gall had intended to promote German immigration to America, but changed his mind because of the Panic of 1819 and because of his impression that Americans were greedy and cheated foreigners. The description also reveals Gall's interest in American technology, steamships, architecture, and the New York canal project. * Period: 1819. Stilgoe, John R. “THE MAGIC OF PENNSYLVANIA TRAVEL NARRATIVES: PART I.” Pennsylvania Heritage 1981 7(1): 9-12. Abstract: Reprints brief excerpts from travel journals by German visitors Gottlieb Mittleberger (1756) and Johann David Schoepf (1783), and by John Penn (1788); article to be continued. * Period: 1756-88. Chandler, R. E. “O'REILLY'S VOYAGE FROM HAVANA TO THE BALIZE.” Louisiana History 1981 22(2): 199-207. Abstract: Presents the text of the "Report and Diary" of a trip across the Gulf of Mexico, which began in 1769 on 6 July and ended on 20 July when the Spanish fleet, under General Alejandro O'Reilly, anchored at the mouth of the Mississippi River. * Period: 1769. Knight, Vernon J., Jr. and Adams, Sheree L. “A VOYAGE TO THE MOBILE AND TOMEH IN 1700, WITH NOTES ON THE INTERIOR OF ALABAMA.” Ethnohistory 1981 28(2): 179-194. Abstract: Presents in translation a French document of 1700 by Charles Levasseur pertaining to the Mobile and Tomeh Indians of the northern Gulf Coast of southeastern North America. Ethnographic data from the document receive comment, with emphasis on settlement and subsistence in the Mobile Bay-delta region. In addition, the earliest known French town list of the interior of Alabama is included, with notes on the probable identifications and affiliations of the Indian towns. * Period: 1700. Williams, C. Fred. “THE BEAR STATE IMAGE: ARKANSAS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1980 39(2): 99-111. Abstract: Few people in the 19th century had been to Arkansas, and so those who had any knowledge of the place at all gained it from reading travel accounts. These pictured the state as primitive and lawless, an image which, though often inaccurate, continued to be the common view. * Period: ca 1840's-80. Johnson, Alice M. “SIMPSON IN RUSSIA.” Beaver [Canada] 1980 311(2): 14-23. Abstract: The private diary which the governor of Rupert's Land, George Simpson, kept while traveling with the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, John Henry Pelly, to northern Europe, July-September 1838, was recently acquired by the company. This document reveals Simpson "in a more human light than do the descriptions given by his contemporary and later critics." Included are details on such matters as the diet of "countesses and other fair ones," the method of serving food in St. Petersburg, where "each Dish [was] brought in Separately," and a church which was "most Splendid inside & out, the alter piece truly Brilliant, the whole thing uncommonly grand yet chaste in architecture while Brilliant with decorations," as well as "the neat cleanly comfortable appearance of the people from the Peasant upwards." * Period: 1838. Faust, Drew Gilpin. “A SLAVEOWNER IN A FREE SOCIETY: JAMES HENRY HAMMOND ON THE GRAND TOUR, 1836-1837.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1980 81(3): 189-206. Abstract: Analyzes the experiences of James Henry Hammond, a young aristocrat, politician, and defender of slavery, in Europe, concluding that the Old World social conditions reaffirmed and intensified his proslavery sentiments. * Period: 1836-37. Swick, Ray. “ALEXANDER WILSON'S DESCRIPTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN 1810.” West Virginia History 1980 41(3): 257-264. Abstract: Alexander Wilson planned a series of books to be entitled American Ornithology. He died before he completed it; however, his travel journals exist and he describes his voyage down the Ohio River in 1810. * Period: 1810. Tappe, Eric D. and Hope, Trevor J. “A CAMBRIDGE DON AND HIS COMPANIONS IN THE BALKANS (1794): SOME UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT STOCKDALE, J. B. S. MORRITT AND RANDLE WILBRAHAM.” Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Europeennes [Romania] 1980 18(4): 591-615. Abstract: The account of an overland journey to Constantinople in 1794 provides detailed descriptions of places visited and people and customs encountered. A visit to the Plain of Troy served to establish Morritt and a traveling companion, James Dallaway, as authorities in the contemporary debate over Troy. The establishment in 1794 of the Ottoman Club, whose membership was restricted to fellow Ottoman travelers, attested to the success of the journey undertaken in the tradition of the Grand Tour. * Period: 1794-98. Stanford, W. B. “THE MANUSCRIPTS OF LORD CHARLEMONT'S EASTERN TRAVELS.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C [Ireland] 1980 80(5): 69-90. Abstract: The extensive manuscript records in Dublin of the visit of Irish Viscount Charlemont (later 1st Earl of Charlemont) in 1749 to Turkey and Greece have frequently been consulted and excerpted by scholars but never fully described or evaluated. The author attempts to remedy that deficiency by describing the manuscripts and evaluating the scope and competence of Charlemont's scholarship. * Period: 1749-91. Mark, Peter. “FETISHERS, "MARYBUCKES" AND THE CHRISTIAN NORM: EUROPEAN IMAGES OF THE SENEGAMBIANS AND THEIR RELIGIONS, 1550-1760.” African Studies Review 1980 23(2): 91-99. Abstract: European narratives of African travels show an increasingly disparaging view of African religion which led to a negative conception of African culture in general. * Period: 1550-1760. Cox, Ethelyn. “FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ALBANY: THE JOURNAL OF MRS. CHARLOTTE BROWN, NOVEMBER 1754-AUGUST 1757.” Alexandria History 1980 2: 1-8. Abstract: Summarizes Englishwoman Charlotte Brown's journal entries for her 2-year stay in America, in which she traveled from Virginia to Philadelphia to New York City. Reprints in full her entries describing Alexandria, Virginia. * Period: 1754-57. Colyer, R. J. “A BRECONSHIRE GENTLEMAN IN EUROPE, 1737-8.” National Library of Wales Journal 1980 21(3): 265-297. Abstract: The educative and cultural value of the Grand Tour is displayed in a diary kept by a Welsh squire, George Lewis Langton (d. 1738), during his journeys through northern France and south into Italy. Enthusiastic details of the architectural delights, especially churches, are provided, as well as critical comments on the climate, scenery, sights, the diet and the mores of the people, and also the many difficulties and perils facing the traveler. * Period: 1737-38. Zukowsky, John. “CASTLES ON THE HUDSON.” Winterthur Portfolio 1979 14(1): 73-92. Abstract: Examines 19th-century authors who compared the Hudson River with the Rhine River and some of the resulting architecture found on the lower Hudson. James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving influenced travel literature by comparing the two rivers. Chateaux, castellated villas, and a few manor houses resulted from the literary comparison and the social status of the owners who saw themselves as the "proper lords" of the American Rhine. * Period: 1820-79. Schweninger, Loren. “A NEGRO SOJOURNER IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS.” Louisiana History 1979 20(3): 305-314. Abstract: James P. Thomas visited antebellum New Orleans once while in slavery (1839) and about two dozen times after he had bought his freedom and found employment on river steamers during 1855-61. In his unpublished autobiography Thomas described the unique conditions and tolerant racial attitudes in the Crescent City. He was favorably impressed with the freedom and culture available to both slaves and free people of color and with the absence of unpleasant racial incidents. This widely-traveled observer found New Orleans to be a much more enjoyable and civilized place for blacks than Europe, the North, or the Upper South. * Period: 1839-61. “JOSHUA THORP'S IMPRESSIONS OF THE TOWN OF AUCKLAND IN 1857.” Journal of the Auckland-Waikato Historical Society [New Zealand] 1979 (35): 1-8. Abstract: Reprints Joshua Thorp's description of Auckland, New Zealand. * Period: 1857. Giddens, Paul H., ed. “IMPRESSIONS OF MINNESOTA TERRITORY BY A PENNSYLVANIA VISITOR OF 1857.” Minnesota History 1979 46(6): 210-227. Abstract: A resident of Franklin, Pennsylvania, using the name "Viator," published a series of eight letters in 1857 in the Venango (Pennsylvania) Spectator describing his trip west to Cleveland, Chicago, Prairie du Chien and La Crosse, Wisconsin, Winona, Red Wing, Hastings, Faribault, Mankato, St. Paul, St. Anthony, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and his return. His commentaries include descriptions of these locations as well as information regarding Minnesotan flora and fauna, the Mississippi and St. Peter Rivers, Fort Snelling, land speculation and preemption, the Winnebago Indians, and other people of the areas. * Period: 1857. Lindfors, Bernth. “A ZULU VIEW OF VICTORIAN LONDON.” Munger Africana Library Notes 1979 (48): 3-19. Abstract: Describes a group of 13 Zulus who were taken to Europe in 1853 to be exhibited to the Western world, and provides a description of one of the Zulu's impressions of Victorian London. * Period: 1853. Weber, David J.; Langum, David J. (reply). “HERE RESTS JUAN ESPINOSA: TOWARDS A CLEARER LOOK AT THE IMAGE ON THE "INDOLENT" CALIFORNIOS.” Western Historical Quarterly 1979 10(1): 61-68. Abstract: Examines the analysis of indolence of Californios in David J. Langum, "Californios and the Image of Indolence" (see entry 16A:5282). Finds Langum's religion-nationalism-racism and industrializing explanations leading into "a quagmire on the road to historical explanation." Poses two questions that need answers to put us back "on solid ground." Espinosa is an apocryphal Californio indolent. * Period: 1780's-1840's. Martin, Kenneth R. “MAUI DURING THE WHALING BOOM: THE TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN GILBERT PENDLETON, JR.” Hawaiian Journal of History 1979 13: 59-66. Abstract: Whaling Captain Gilbert Pendleton, Jr., was forced by "lung fever" in March 1846 to leave his vessel to recuperate on Maui. Pendleton's journals give a valuable glimpse of Maui in its whaling heyday as an island undergoing dramatic cross-cultural tension. It was his convalescence, rather than his personal qualities, that made his journal so interesting. More vessels touched Lahaina in 1846 (about 400) than in any other year. * Period: 1846. McElhaney, Jackie, ed. “FROM MISSOURI TO TEXAS IN 1845: MARTIN AUSTIN GAULDIN'S JOURNAL.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 1979 83(2): 151-166. Abstract: Martin Austin Gauldin (b. 1818) rode on horseback from Marshall, Missouri, to Austin, Texas, in 1845. His journal makes generally favorable comments about Texas land, water, and fish. He notes life in Paris, Bonham, and other towns, and mentions heavy immigration into the state. * Period: 1845. Hallwas, John E. “QUINCY AND MEREDOSIA IN 1842: CHARLES CARTER LANGDON'S TRAVEL LETTERS.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 1979 2(2): 127-137. Abstract: Discusses the letters written by Charles Carter Langdon for the Peoria Register and North-Western Gazetteer as part of a series based on his travels in the western Illinois region. * Period: 1842. Snyder, Charles M., ed. “DR. MARSHALL'S OHIO JOURNEY: TRAVEL, 1837 STYLE.” Old Northwest 1979 5(3): 221-235. Abstract: In 1837 Dr. John Ellis Marshall of Buffalo, New York, embarked for a visit to his wife's brother and sister in Holmes County, Ohio. His account of the journey and return, which lasted more than three weeks and took him through present-day West Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as Ohio, suggests the conditions of the country and of travel at that time. * Period: 1837. Ryan, Pat M., ed. “MATHIAS HUTCHINSON'S "NOTES OF A JOURNEY" (1819-20).” Quaker History 1979 68(2): 92-114. Abstract: A biographical introduction to the journal of this 24-year-old companion of Edward Hicks. Hutchinson was looking for a site to farm, as indicated by his attention to climate, soils, prices, and trade. He moved to Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, in 1821, and became a substantial farmer, inventor, and Whig assemblyman. The diary, printed in full, documents travel conditions and the central Pennsylvania, western New York, and Ontario frontier to which northeastern Friends were moving. Some Genesee segments appeared in Rochester History. * Period: 1819-20. Woodhouse, Anne Felicity. “NICHOLAS BIDDLE IN EUROPE, 1804-1807.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1979 103(1): 3-33. Abstract: During 1804-07 young, cultured, well-educated Nicholas Biddle visited much of Europe. His recently (1977) discovered diaries display his wide range of interests which would continue throughout his career. * Period: 1804-07. Walker, Joseph E., ed. “PLOWSHARES AND PRUNING HOOKS FOR THE MIAMI AND POTAWATOMI: THE JOURNAL OF GERALD T. HOPKINS, 1804.” Ohio History 1979 88(4): 361-407. Abstract: In 1804, the Indian Committee of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends voted to send a delegation to confer at Fort Wayne, Indiana, with chiefs of the Miami and Potawatomi Indians. The chiefs had requested help in teaching their tribesmen agricultural skills. Leaving on 23 February 1804, three Friends undertook the journey through the wilderness of southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gerald T. Hopkins wrote a detailed journal of this trek; the meeting with the Indians and the journey back through northwestern Ohio, Lake Erie, New York, and New Jersey. They arrived in Baltimore on 5 May 1804. Hopkins described many features of the land, the flora and fauna, and the American and Indian settlements along the way. * Period: 1804. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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