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1831AD 03 ANONYMOUS - E 1831 “… the unnamed author … of this book travelled to Texas to take possession of some 20,000 acres he had purc hased in New York from the Galveston Bay Land Company. On arriving, however, instead of enjoying the wealth and prosperity he'd been promised, he learned that he'd been swindled by fast-talking speculators. But because he was immediately taken by the beauty and prospects of Texas, he stayed, and wrote this most valuable and informative record of pre- Republic times.” A Visit to Texas, Being the Journal of a Traveller through those parts Most interesting to American Settlers facsimile edition, Austin, Texas, Steck, 1952. 03 BARR, Amelia Edith Huddleston (1831-1919) British novelist and teacher, America immigrant - E Dates unknown All The Days of My Life: An Autobiography New York, Appleton, 1913, is reported to contain diary material. 03 BEALE, Dorothea (1831-1906) headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies’ College - E Dates unknown Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham by Elizabeth raikes, London, Constable, 1908, is reported to contain diary material. 01 BOURKE, Anne Maria December 6th. to 27th. 1831 Letter diary, written to her sister, of the daughter of the Governor of New South Wales; domestic and social life at Government House, Sydney; ceremonies; good descriptions; lively. In Life Lines: Australian women’s letters and diaries, 1788-1840 by Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender. St. Leonards, New South Wales, 1992, pp 74-77. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) poet - H554 June 4th. 1831 to April 23rd. 1832 Personal diary of Elizabeth Barrett at Hope End. Intellectual, family and social life; her father; her health; anxiety about the financial problems which led to the sale of Hope End. 1. - Diary by E.B.B.; The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1831-1832 edited by Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson. Athens, Ohio University Press, 1969. This is the scholarly edition of the entire diary. 2. - The Barretts at Hope End; The Early Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning edited by Elizabeth Berridge. London, John Murray, 1974. A shortened version, something more than half, of the 1969 edition. 3. - Extracts: Blythe, pp 52-57; and Simons, pp 83-105. 01/03 BURGESS, George [The Rt. Rev.] (1809-1866) first Bishop of Maine - A262,M2336 April 1831 to April 1834 Matthews: European travel diary (extracts); university life in Gottingen, Bonn, and Berlin, and travel in other parts of Germany; notes on universities, lectures, literary figures, scenery; religious inclination. In A Memoir of the Life of the Right Reverend George Burgess, D.D. by Alexander Burgess. Philadelphia, 1869, pp 33-47. Note: James Cummings (1946) has Last Journal of the Rt. Rev. George Burgess Boston, 1866. 03 BURNES, Alexander, Sir (1805-1841) British diplomat - E a) - 1831 to 1833 “… a spying mission under the orders of the Supreme Government of India. From Lahore he went to Peshawar and then across the mountains to Kabul journeying further over the Hindu Kush mountains he went to Kunduz and Balkh. From there he went to Bokhara. Crossing the Turkman desert he reached Khorasan and them along the Caspian Sea to Persia.” Travels into Bokhara: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia; also: Narrative of a Voyage ono the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore with presents from the King of Great Britain London, John Murray, three volumes, 1834. b) - 1836 to 1838 Cabool: Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City London, john Murray, 1842. 03 BURTON, Isabel, Lady (1831-1896) wife of Sir Richard Burton (qv) - E Dates unknown The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton, the Story of Her Life London, Hutchinson, 1897, is reported to contain diary material. 02 BUSBY, James (1807-1871) - *H555,E 1831 1. - Journal of a Recent Visit to the Principal Vineyards of Spain and France, Giving a Minute Account of the Different Methods Pursued in the Cultivation of the Vine and the Manufacture of Wine, with a Catalogue of the Different Varieties of Grape, an Attempt to Calculate the Profits of Cultivating the Vine, etc. etc. New South Wales, 1833; London, 1834; New York, 1835. 2. - Journal of a Tour Through Some of the Vineyards of Spain and France Sydney, David Ell, 1979, 142 pp, 1000 copies. This is a facsimile of the 1833 edition. 03 CARNARVON, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Fourth Earl of (1831-1890) - E In The Life of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Fourth Earl Carnarvon 1831-1890 by Arthur Hardinge. Oxford University Press, three volumes, 1925. CHAMBERLAIN, Benjamin Goodman (b.1811) of Leicester - B222 October 1831 to April 1839 Matthews: Private diary; brief notes of his domestic and family life, social affairs, and sport in Leicester. Records of Nineteenth Century Leicester by Isabel C.Ellis. Privately printed, 1935, pp 183- 192. 02 CLARKSON, Clara (1811-1889) - *H556,E From 1831 Merrie Wakefield: Based on Some of the Diaries of Clara Clarkson, 1811-89, of Alverthorpe Hall, Wakefield by Ann K.Jaques. Wakefield, West Yorkshire Printing Co., 1971. 02/03 CLEVELAND, Moses C. - *M2337,E Journal of a Tour from Riverhead to Niagara Falls in New York History July, 1946. COCKBURN, Henry Thomas, Lord (1779-1854) Scottish judge - B222 a) - January 1831 to January 1854 A record of public, political and legal affairs in Scotland, with reminiscences and social comment; the Scottish Reform Bill; Church affairs; mainly impersonal but attractively written and valuable. 1. - Memorials of His Time Edinburgh, 1856, is his autobiography to 1830 and is continued as Journal of Henry Cockburn Edinburgh, two volumes, 1874. 2. - Extracts: Fyfe (2), pp 326-424; and Ponsonby (3), pp 94-96. b) - March 1838 to April 1854 Matthews: Legal diaries; kept while on circuit throughout Scotland; legal life and procedure and anecdotes; with an interesting over-all view of Scottish life, scenery, and customs. Circuit Journeys Edinburgh, 1888. 03 COOLIDGE, Thomas Jefferson (1831-1920) - E To 1900 1. - Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge: Drawn in great part from his diary and brought down to the year MDCCCC privately printed, Boston, Merrymount Press, 1902, 48 copies. 2. - The Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1831-1920 Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Note: Neither volume has been examined and it is not certain that the contents correspond. 01 CROOK, John (b.1831) born at Trenton, Lancashire, of Provo, Utah - A262 October 1831 to September 1863 Matthews: Autobiography and journal; emigration; joins Mormons at Salt Lake in 1856; notes on farming, hardships, development of Provo Valley, etc. In Utah Historical Quarterly VI, 1933, pp 51-62 and 110-112. 02/03 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) - *H396,B222,E 1831 to 1836 a) - Diary of his voyage, as unpaid naturalist, on HMS Beagle; South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa; the detailed notes of an enquiring mind; people, places, topography, agriculture, mining, weather; his scientific work and observations in natural history. Much of general interest. 1. - Journal of Researches in Geology and Natural History London, 1839; many later editions. 2. - Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle edited by Nora Barlow. Cambridge University Press, 1933. 3. - Charles Darwin's "Beagle" Diary edited by Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 4. - Extracts: Blythe, pp 119-125; and Waite, pp 205-218. b) - Darwin's Journal edited by Gavin de Beer. London, British Museum, 1959 (Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series). Note: See also: 1. - Diary of the Voyage of M.M.S. Beagle edited by Nora Barlow. New York University, 1987. 2. - Darwin's Notebooks on Transmutation of Species edited by Gavin de Beer in Bulletin of the British Museum Five Issues, 1960-1961. 3. - Darwin on Man Dutton, 1974. 4. - The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin Cornell, 1980. 5. - Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844 Cornell, 1987. 03 DORMAN, James Hervey (b.1831) - E Dates unknown In Everything Give Thanks: A Journal of the Life and Times of James Hervey Dorman in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society LX, No.2, April, 1962, pp85-105. 03 EMERSON, Edward Bliss (1805-1834) tubercular younger brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson - *H557,E Puerto Rico in the 1830's: The Journal of Edward Bliss Emerson edited by Frank Otto Gatell in The Americas XVI, No. 1, July, 1959, pp 63-75. 02/03 EMERSON, John Smith - *M2338,E In Pioneer Days in Hawaii by Oliver Pomeroy Emerson. Garden City, New York, Doubleday Doran, 1928. 02/03 EMERSON, Ursula Sophia Newell - *M2339,E In Pioneer Days in Hawaii by Oliver Pomeroy Emerson. Garden City, New York, Doubleday Doran, 1928. 03 FARKAS, Sandor Boloni - E 1831 Journey in North America, 1831 Santa Barbara, 1978. 03 FERGUSSON, Adam - E 1831 Practical Notes Made during a Tour of Canada and a Portion of the United States Blackwood, 1833. 01/02 FLOYD, John (1751-1837) of Montgomery, Virginia, Governor of Virginia - A262,*M2340 March 1831 to February 1834 Matthews: Social and political diary; public, political, and social life in Virginia; national and international news; his activities in Washington in the Jacksonian period, while he was Governor of Virginia; mainly political interest, with notes on many eminent national figures. 1. - The Life and Diary of John Floyd by Charles H.Ambler. Richmond, 1918, pp 123-237. 2. - Extracts: Berger (1), pp 169-179. FORSTER, Josiah of Tottenham, Middlesex - B223 June 1831 to 1866 Matthews: Quaker diary; Quaker religious life, introspection, and reflection; some comments on social life and politics. Extracts from My Note-Book Tottenham, two volumes, 1865 and 1867. FOWLER, Thomas - A262,C43,M2341 1831 Matthews: Travel journal; Englishman's tour through Canada to Niagara; topography, towns, customs.