Travel diary and commonplace book, 1835, 1881-1882.

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Travel diary and commonplace book, 1835, 1881-1882.

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Rodgers notes his route, mileage, and travel expenses of a journey from Philadelphia to Greensboro, Georgia. Places described briefly include Warrenton, Va., where he witnessed a slave auction and commented on the intemperance of the inhabitants; Orange, Va., where he noted the general ignorance of many people in central Virginia and the health of James Madison; the University of Virginia where he attended lectures of the Medical Class, and exhitibited his intstruments, describing the students as "young, impertinent coxcombs"; Lynchburg, Va., where he witnessed a "considerable number of intemperate men which is rare in Virginia"; and Danville, Va., whose neatness he attributed to the many Yankees in the populace. Also Guilford Court house where an old Revolutionary soldier described the battle; a "dutch" village near Salisbury, N.C., where he met Augustin Clayton returning from Congress; nullifiers in South Carolina; excellent roads near Abbeville, S.C., and a speech given there by John C. Calhoun "well calculated to favour a dissolution of the Union"; drunkards in Abbeville, S.C.; a meeting between a wife and a husband imprisoned for murder; Warrenton, Ga., where the landlady "was rather [stormy?] among the negroes." He also mentions a travelling companion who was selling subscriptions to the New York Mirror; local hostility to Van Buren; occasional meetings with Jackson men, Union men or friends to temperance; carriage breakdown on road to Georgia and kindness of local inhabitants. In [the 1880s?] the volume was used to copy records concerning the founding of First Christian Church on Rock Creek and Fox River [Ill.?] in 1841 and 1845. In 1881 and 1883 it was reused as a commonplace book of poems, hymns and religious quotes.

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