Peter Orlando Hutchinson travel writings and family genealogy, 1833-1887.

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Peter Orlando Hutchinson travel writings and family genealogy, 1833-1887.

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Three volumes, holograph, with watercolor illustrations, titled "A Pedestrian Tour of 1236 Miles Through Wales and England, Performed in the Summer of 1833," including drawings and maps, with a few engravings and other printed items tipped in, [ca. 1833?]; "Memorials of the Hutchinson Family, Especially of that Branch Designated in the Herald's College 'Hutchinson of Lincolnshire,'" possibly incomplete, including genealogical tables, London, 1846; and "Narrative of a Tour Made into Lincolnshire for the Purpose of Hunting Up Memorials of the Hutchinson Family," excerpted from his diary, 1857. Laid in "Memorials of the Hutchinson Family" is an ALS from Peter Orlando Hutchinson to Edward Maunde Thompson, British Museum, Mar 8, 1887, offering a donation of manuscripts used in compiling his Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson; a watercolor of the Hutchinson coat of arms; and two copies of a printed Hutchinson coat of arms. Also present are a printed volume, "A Brief Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hutchinson and Thomas Oliver," by William Henry Whitmore (Boston: S. G. Drake, 1865), annotated by Peter Orlando Hutchinson in holograph on a preliminary page and with a brief manuscript genealogical chart laid in, n.d.; and two vellum sheets, one annotated "Probate of Will of Peter Orlando Hutchinson of Sidmouth, Devon, England, Bearing date July 30, 1873."

0.40 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

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