Letters to my children from Europe, Asia and Africa, 1850 May 27-1851 August 8.

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Letters to my children from Europe, Asia and Africa, 1850 May 27-1851 August 8.

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Pickering Dodge (1804-1863), a wealthy widower of Salem, Massachusetts, writes highly descriptive and instructive letters to his children at home from his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. After his ship lands at Le Havre, Dodge travels to (among other places) Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Mainz, Geneva, Bern, Lucerne, Munich, Vienna, Trieste, Rome, Naples, Malta, Cairo, Thebes, Jerusalem, Beirut, Smyrna, Corinth, Constantinople, Athens, Marseilles, and London, where he describes the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. With a pencil drawing portrait (of one of the Dodge children?) laid in.

52 items (284 p.) in 1 v. ; 28 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Dodge, Pickering, 1804-1863

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Pickering Dodge (1804-1863) was born in Salem, Mass., the son of Pickering Dodge (1778-1833) and Rebecca Jenks Dodge (1781-1851). Dodge graduated from Harvard College in 1823 and was a merchant. In 1826, Dodge married Anna Storer Colman (1808-1849), the daughter of Rev. Henry Colman (1785-1849), of Salem. The Dodges had five children, including George Storer Dodge (1838-1840)....

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

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