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- Call number
- MssCol 791
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Diary of a Richmond clergyman, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Diary of a Richmond clergyman kept during a trip from Richmond to Niagara Falls in 1837. He traveled by steamboat, railroad, canal, horse and buggy, and stagecoach through Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bordentown (N.Y.), Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Lockport to Niagara Falls; returned by way of Buffalo, across Lake Erie to Ashtabula, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Blairsville, Ligonier, Somerset, Comberland and Winchester to Richmond. Mentions sermons heard and delivered on his trip; social and economic conditions; Indian reservations; and places of interest in the larger cities. At back of diary is a commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul, and a discussion of the preservation of writing
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328