Inventory of James Scott Melville Diary ca. 1833

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Inventory of James Scott Melville Diary ca. 1833

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Although earlier and later dates are suggested in a few entries, James Scott Melville's diary seems primarily to record his emigration in 1833 from New York State to Boston, and from there by sea to Quebec, on the Brig Mars out of Liverpool, under the command of Captain Watt. Signed by James Scott Melville in ink on the inside front cover, the diary is bound in marbled paper, apparently originally containing 220 unlined pages, six having been removed at some point, and measures approximately 17 x 10 cm. Only half of the book is filled with entries. The first 68 pages are unnumbered, containing two accounts of trials for treason of French military officers in 1815 Paris, Melville's miscellaneous address notes, his record of an 1833 trial in Genesee County, N.Y., and entries about his own voyage to Quebec. The succeeding pages are numbered by hand in ink, from 1 to 150 in the upper right corners, to be filled in as a reading list, left mostly empy.

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