Journals of trips to New Jersey, New York, and New Orleans, 1866-1902.

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Journals of trips to New Jersey, New York, and New Orleans, 1866-1902.

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The four volumes contain holograph accounts of six vacation trips to Cape May and Long Branch, New Jersey (27 July-3 August 1867); up the Hudson River to the Catskills and Saratoga, New York, and Canada (29 July-2 August 1868, 30 July-1 August 1869, 28 July-19 August 1873, 30 July-8 August 1875); and down the Mississippi to New Orleans (7 February-10 March 1870). Within each volume Fish pasted newspaper clippings about the area, reports about the trip, railroad timetables, maps with the trip routes marked in blue pencil, hotel dinner menus, pamphlets about the area, horse race programs, and handbills for plays. Volume 1 contains his account of his 1867 vacation in Cape May, including a letter from Pennsylvania railroad executive Asa Packer. Volumes 2 and 3 contain his accounts of summer vacations to the Catskill Mountains in New York, including the obituary for Charles L. Beach, proprietor for the Catskill Mountain House. Volume 4 contains his account of a railroad trip from Philadelphia to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, via Chicago, Louisville, and Cincinnati.

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Beach, Charles Le Hatt, 1808-1902

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Packer, Asa, 1805-1879

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Fish, Asa I. (Asa Israel), 1820-1879

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Asa I. Fish was a lawyer in Philadelphia and a director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey. From the description of Journals of trips to New Jersey, New York, and New Orleans, 1866-1902. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38989454 Asa I. Fish was a Philadelphia lawyer, poet, and a director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. From the description of Critical studies of Tennyson's In memoriam, and Keats's The eve of St. Agnes, ...