"Principally written during a tour in North America" Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only) Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3) Blank leaves: 37 Watermark: J Green Son 1825
Accompanied by 1) a letter from James Henthorn Todd to John Ribton Garstin, Jan. 11, 1864, autograph letter signed 3 p. 13 cm.; 2) a letter from Charles Philip Cotton to John Ribton Garstin, Feb. 11, 1877, autograph letter signed 1 p. 16 cm; and 3) miscellaneous notes, autograph note signed 3 p. 20-26 cm. Removed from Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae... Vol. 6, Supplement. Dublin, James Charles, 1878 (BX5590 .C85).
Partly printed Also signed by the earl of Breadalbane Coat of arms of United Kingdom at top of passport Coat of arms of earl of Derby at bottom of passport Embossed government seal in lower left-hand corner Spanish stamp and signatures on verso, March 1, 1880 Folded into brown morocco carrying case
Bound in marbelized paper over board with linen spine Name of C. Fabre found on p. 21 and 40; personal reference in an invitation on page 17 Several missing pages Letters chiefly to Admiral Aime Felix Saint Elme Reynaud, 1808-1876, French naval commander, reporting ship movements from on board the Gregeios while stationed at Bone, Algeria, 1855-1856 (p. 1-20) and on board the steamer Catinat, 1861-1864 (p. 20-114) reporting from Brest, Halifax, New York, Hampton Roads, New Orleans, Fort Royal in Martinique, Bermuda, Caracas, and Havana Includes two extracts from the log of the Catinat for 1861, Aug. 23-Sept 1 and Sept. 26-Oct. 8 (p. 40 and 43); letter of 1862, June 8, addressed to American rear admiral, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, 1805-1877 (p. 55-56); a letter of 1863, Feb. 27 reporting on a voyage to Caracas, Venezuela (p. 73-74); drawing of half-figure of a naval officer on p. 97; personages and events of the American Civil War, especially Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1893 (passim), and (amont other), Nathan Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jefferson Davis, David Glasgow Farragut, William Henry Seward, the Monitor and the Merrimac Battle at Hampton Roads (p. 59-62), Black troops and slavery (p. 92-95, 102-109), the Red River Campaign of 1863 (p. 100-102), and William Tecumseh Sherman See bookseller's description in Vertical File In French
French Penciled note in blue refers to Bismarck Further blue penciled notes may be found in the following volume Removed from Jules Favre, Gouvernement de la Defense Nationale... Paris, Henri Plon, 1872 (DC310 .F27 Vol. 2).