Journals, 1810-1813.

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Journals, 1810-1813.

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Volume I (269 p.) covers the period 1810 Sept. 30 to 1811 Nov. 18. Guild served as supercargo on board the schooner "Friendship" out of Boston (Stephen Higginson, Jr., owner) bound for Tunis with a cargo of 102 bales of Georgia cotton and logwood. He provides details of the seaman's life, the diet and discipline of the sea, meteorological conditions, and sets down his close observations of various specimans of marine life. Off the coast of North Africa the ship is boarded by a British Navy vessel and shortly after seized by a French privateer. Taken to Toulon and then to Marseilles, Guild revels in this unexpected encounter with French culture. His efforts to secure a passport from the American consul in Paris result in a fairly leisurely tour through the provinces, stopping to see the sights at Nîmes, Lyons and Autun. At Paris, Guild visits the Louvre and secures admission to Notre Dame to witness the baptism of Napoleon's son, the King of Rome (1811 June 9). The journal is a beautifully-written account of Guild's happy adventures abroad. In Volume II (103 p.), "written for the entertainment of my friends at Newton," Guild chronicles his journey south to find work in order to pay off an $8,000 debt. His prospects are bleak in both Baltimore and Washington, despite his kinship with Josiah Quincy, Congressman from Boston. He describes the new public buildings in Washington. Guild travels back to Boston by way of Wilmington, Philadelphia (where he visits Peale's museum), Cranberry, N.J. (where he goes fox-hunting), New York, Albany, Brattleboro and Walpole. The journal is dated 1812 Nov. 29-1813 April 23. News of the war with England is related.

2 v., bound in vellum ; 33 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Guild, Josiah Quincy, d. 1861.

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Son of Benjamin Guild and Elizabeth Quincy. Graduated Phillips Exeter, 1801. Harvard, 1807. Died Florida. From the description of Journals, 1810-1813. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 40463888 ...