{"id":3758,"date":"2013-07-18T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2013-07-18T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:51:03","slug":"travelogue-coleman-1833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2013\/07\/18\/travelogue-coleman-1833\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Gem: Travelogue of Juliet Bestor Coleman, 1833"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we have a lot of large, impressive digital collections in Acumen<\/a>, sometimes the most interesting things come in small packages.<\/p>\n

In 1833, about thirty years before the Civil War, 24-year-old Juliet Bestor traveled from her home in Connecticut to La Grange, Alabama, to get married. <\/p>\n

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A nine page travelogue<\/a>, part of the Meriwether Family Papers<\/a>, details this three-week journey, on road and river. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n

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Traveling by boat: “Took the boat Robert Morris for New Castle on Sunday morning at 6 o’clock & proceeded down the Deleware river – the scenery on this river is delightful having Jersey on the left & Penn. on the right…”<\/p>\n

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Riding without rest: “…arrived at Baltimore at 9 o’clock P.M. & finding we could take no stage-line for Wheeling without waiting 2 days we jumped in the stage for Washington City (without either dinner or rest) where we arrived about 1\/2 past 10 on Sunday evening having left Phil. the same morning!”<\/p>\n

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At the hot springs: “…then passed the warm and hot springs – this water is from 96 to 107 in temperature & feels very warm & is strongly sulphurous – we next came to the white sulphur springs – these are very clear – cold & taste strong of sulphur…”<\/p>\n

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Crossing the Blue Ridge (Virginia): “…began to ascend the blue Ridge – the air on these mountains is very clean & cold – then descending came to a little village called Wainsborough where we stopped to change horses & made till 2 then dined then till 7 & spent the night.”<\/p>\n

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Stopping at a bluff: “…we got out of our carriage & were obliged to walk some distance to look over the tremendous precipice said to be 1000 feel in depth at the foot of which runs New river which looked like a very small creek from its distance. The huge oaks beneath us appeared like shrubbery – Such a truly sublime & awful prospect I never witnessed…”<\/p>\n

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In Louisville (Kentucky): “…here we found a good publick house which seemed quite refreshing after such a dreary trip of 300 miles on the river. – walked out about a mile next morning to see the town…”<\/p>\n

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Journey’s end: “I met his family waiting my arrival. – Then I enjoyed for the first time for three weeks that unmolested rest which I so much needed – yet notwithstanding all the fatigues of journeying I must say I am passionately fond of it.”<\/p>\n

The second wife of James Cobb Coleman, Juliet had six children over the course of ten years in Alabama. She died in 1850, at the age of 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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