Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Book Synopsis Bound Commonplace Book, Likely of an Emigrant Coming to America by :
Download or read book Bound Commonplace Book, Likely of an Emigrant Coming to America written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Includes extracts, paraphrases, the occasional newspaper clipping, mostly relating to travel and emigration to America. The manuscript begins: "A Mr. Birkbeck mentions at a meeting in London held Jan. 31, 1831 at which Dr. Birkbeck proposed Parliament for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the removal of stamps off newspapers, advertisements, etc.- that in America there is 'no tax upon newspapers, and in 8 newspapers published in New York there were in one year 1,456,416 advertisements, whilst in 400 newspapers in England and Ireland within the same period, the number was only 1,000,000.' 'Throughout America the total number of advertisements annually was 10,105,000 whilst in Great Britain it was only 1,000,000." "By one calculation it appeared that advertisements which cost 7.7 in America; in England came to £3.18.0; and where an article was advertised in America at the rate of £6.8.0 a year, in this country (England) it costs £200.16.0'." The writer is mostly gleaning information from elsewhere, and although often by direct quote, also by paraphrasing. The next entry concerns the Signers of the American Independence, and the ages at which they died which the writer notes was "copied from the Times Newspaper 1833." And the next, a copy of an Emigrant's certificate going to America, "taken from the end of Travels in North America by John Palmer published in 1818." Indeed, much of Palmer is both quoted and paraphrased here, as is Henry Fearon; William Dunlop's The Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada by a Backwoodsman (1832); Stuart's Three Years in North America (2 vols., 1833); Murat, Basil Hall, and James Fenimore Cooper. Much of what is recorded deals primarily with emigration, the cost of passages between London and New York, fees, and costs of goods. About two-thirds of the way through the manuscript there is an inexplicable shift to Italy and for 12 pages he quotes and paraphrases Duret's Calabria during a Military Residence of Three Years by a French Officer (1832), and William Gell's The Topography of Rome and its Vicinity (1834). And then a shift back again to the West Indies, where the writer quotes and paraphrases Mrs. Carmichael's The Domestic Manners of the White, Coloured, & Negro Population (1833); followed by extracts from Treadway's Statistics of the United States of America (1834). From the back of the book working in are 22 pages of extracts from Frances Trollope, notes on the American Life Insurance Co. and the British Bank of North America, dates of packet departures, captains' names, and tonnage thereof, British and American steamers, including an account of the Great Western, much taken from advertisements seen in various newspapers.
