Elise Charlotte Otte diary, 1843.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Elise Charlotte Otte diary, 1843.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50397980

Diary of traveler and private tutor Elise Charlotte Otte, kept from 13 - 27 July 1843. Entries describe Otte's travels with John Quincy Adams and the Joseph Grinnell family of New Bedford, Mass., through northern New York and Quebec en route to Niagara Falls. Along the journey Otte comments extensively on the history and geography of the regions toured, in particular their connections to events of the French and Indian War. Regions visited in addition to Niagara Falls include Saratoga, Lake George, Quebec, and Montreal. Also included with the diary are two letters written by Otte addressed to Charles Francis Adams, asking him if he would be interested in adding her travel journals to Adams's collection of family papers. Also, a newspaper clipping taken from the London Athenaeum noting Otte's death, as well as a letter to the editors in response to factual errors in the piece.

2 v. in a box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7625256

Massachusetts Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f873mk (person)

John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq7w0v (person)

Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Grinnell, Joseph, 1788-1885

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk3pkm (person)

Otte, Elise Charlotte, 1818-1904.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v332n (person)