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Title Journal d'un voyage fait avec mon fils en 1793 en Allemagne, en Hollande, en Angleterre suivi d'un autre journal de notre navigation d'Angleterre a...

Creator Saint-Mesmin, Benigne Charles Fevret de, d. 1802

Date Created 1793

Place Eastern Canada, Halifax (N.S.)

Language French

Subjects Voyages and travels

Description Text includes many words scribbled out, as well as extensive marginal annotations, underlinings, and footnotes.
Pasteover containing alternate text on p. 173 of Cahier 8.
Arranged in 10 disbound gatherings of 12 leaves each, numbered at head of first leaf "Cayer I[-X]".
Gatherings are wrapped in a paper folder, with date and title in a different hand: "1793. Journal d'un voyage fait par Benigne Charles Fevret de St. Memin avec son fils."
Laid in: 6 leaves of ms. notes (22 cm. or smaller), containing inserts to the journal, in the author's hand.
Published as: Halifax in 1793. [Ottawa : Edmond Cloutier, 1946].

Summary Account by Fevret de Saint-Mesmin of travels with his son through parts of Europe, England, Canada, and New York between March 27 and October 26, 1793. The journal begins with Cahier 1, when the travelers depart from Fribourg, Switzerland on March 27, 1793. They tour the German cities of Frankfort, Heidelburg, Darmstadt, Koblenz, Cologne, and Dusseldorf, before travelling on to Holland on April 17, as described in Cahier 2. On May 7, Fevret and his son sail to London on the ship "Prince of Wales," and Cahiers 3-4 are devoted to descriptions of English sights, including St. James Palace, Whitehall, Kensington Garden, Greenwich, and the paintings seen in various exhibitions and galleries. Fevret adds historical notes as well, throughout the text. After touring other English areas such as Oxford, Bristol, and Cornwall, they set sail from the port of Falmouth on June 12, 1793 for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they stay from June 16 to Sept. 14. The route from Halifax to New York which they follow between Sept. 14 and Oct. 19, takes them through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, along the St. Lawrence River to Quebec, Montreal, Lake Champlain, Albany, the Hudson River, and Niagara Falls, Ticonderoga, and Saratoga, and they include descriptions of the Huron Indians and other native peoples along the way. The journal ends abruptly as Fevret and his son finally arrive in New York City on Oct. 26, 1793.

Extent [72] leaves ; 26 cm

Format Diaries, Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, French, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer MS 281

BibID 168439

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZS8MJ5KN

Unique identifier NL11ORJO

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