Journal, with illustrations

"Journal of Travels in Canada and the United States"

pp. 1-2 8 Dec. Started from Quebec with his uncle, Mildmay Fane, who, having just become Major General, this day quitted the 54th Regiment which he had commanded 22 years. "Almost the whole of the officers of the Garrison in about 20 sleighs .... turned out and drove with my uncle to Lorette, the first stage of our journey to Montreal".

pp. 3-6 Travel by "extra" (a low sleigh drawn by two horses tandem). Sketch of a winter "extra" in Lower Canada. Quebec to Montreal. The French Canadians.

pp. 6-7, 10-12 Dec. Montreal. Crossing the river. By sleigh to La Prairie.

p. 8 By train to Rutland, N.Y. Early departure by train.

pp. 9-10 Railway carriages in U.S.

pp. 10-11, 13-14 Dec. To Niagara via Buffalo.

pp. 12-14 15-16 Dec. Niagara.

pp. 14-15 17 Dec. Buffalo.

pp. 16-17 18-19 Dec. Buffalo to Hyde Park. Man turned out of train.

pp. 18-20 Fellow travellers.

p. 21 Sketch of travelling costume in Canada.

pp. 20, 22, 21-23 Dec. New York.

pp. 23-27 23-24 Dec. Philadelphia.

Kossuth's entry into Philadelphia, American horses.

pp. 27-29, 25-26 Dec. Baltimore.

pp. 29-43, 27-31 Dec. Washington

The Capitol (prints of exterior and of interior of Senate chamber stuck in, p. 33). Representatives and their ladies; senators; the original declaration of independence;

Debate in House of Representatives

The President - "a good Butler looking kind of man".

pp. 43-47, 1-3 Jan. New York.

"At homes" on New Year's day; Brooklyn; fights in Broadway; dancing.

pp. 48-65 3-12 Jan. Boston, General description. 'The Daughter of the Regiment'. (Sketch of the Lover in this opera, p. 51). The lover "a great fat beast more like a butcher than a singer". Sketch of an "Exquisite" at the Opera, p. 52. Visit to the Atheneum. Paucity of good art in U.S.

Bunkers Hill. The navy yard.

The manufacturing town of Lowell, 24 miles from Boston. Boston Assembly. Excellence of dancing. Good music. Sketch of an old woman at a concert, p. 66. Churches and their Christmas decorations.

pp. 67-78 12-23 Jan. New York; pretentiousness; buildings and furniture; reception days. The New York Hotel (a specimen printed menu pasted in (p. 75)). Social functions and the nouveaux riches.

p. 79 Two cuttings from New York papers, "Gossip of the Town".

Inserted at end of volume: (a) Panoramic View from the Bunker Hill Monument. Engraving and explanatory key, with perspective view of the monument [1848].

(b) 'The Lowell Offering', a monthly magazine "written, edited, and published by Female Operatives employed in the mills"

Vol. IV, no. 2. Dec. 1843.

Vol. IV, no. 12 Oct. 1844.

(c) Printed map of British Possessions in North America, with part of the United States.

Undated [c. 1840-50]. (Longman & Co., Paternoster Row).

(d) "Disturnell's New Map of the United States and Canada" (New York, 1851).

Marked by F.A. Fane with his route in Dec. and Jan. 1851 and 1852, and his route in Sept. 1851.

(e) Pen and ink sketch of the skating rink at Quebec.