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- Call number
- MssCol 849
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Dubois diary, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
This diary was kept by a person with the surname Dubois (given name is not known) between October 6, 1840 and June 24, 1843. Entries describe Dubois' journey from Catskill, New York to New York City, thence by water to Mobile and Portland, Alabama; Tallapoosa, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Wheeling, West Virginia; Ashtabula, Ohio; Buffalo, Niagara, Rochester, Schenectady, and Troy, New York; and back to Catskill. Diary includes expense account and miscellaneous prose and poetry A pencil diary is inserted, as well as a receipt for passage fare on the Mississippi River
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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