This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...ships, under the British Orders in Council, excited strong feelings of resentment against England, and the protracted session of Congress, sitting frequently with closed doors, made us look forward with some anxiety to the future. There was neither telegraph nor steamer in those days, and all news from home was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...ships, under the British Orders in Council, excited strong feelings of resentment against England, and the protracted session of Congress, sitting frequently with closed doors, made us look forward with some anxiety to the future. There was neither telegraph nor steamer in those days, and all news from home was received only through the English newspapers, or by merchant ships direct to northern ports. We daily met and communicated every item of news any one of us obtained by letter, or otherwise, and many were the suggestions and plans devised for the security of property at risk in case of war. In the month of July, it was the Swedish law that every vessel arriving from America should come to anchor in the quarantine harbor, fourteen miles from the city; being boarded by the master of the quarantine, the necessary manifest of cargo and clearance, etc., were exhibited, and a memorandum thereof made and immediately despatched by a boat to the proper health officer at the city. Being anxious to be promptly advised of every arrival, I made arrangements with the man who navigated the boat between the station and the city, that he should exhibit to me the papers of all American vessels before he took them to the health office. There was no breach of trust in this. The papers were open to inspection, and I could at any moment inspect them upon application to the office; but the vessels arriving frequently at an early hour in the morning, I was usually the first to get any news. It so happened that on the morning of the 23d of July, 1812, between five and six o'clock, the quarantine boy brought me the papers of the pilot-boat schooner Champlain, cleared by Minturn & Champlin, in ballast from New York to Eastport in Maine. It was so clear to my mind that this ...
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Very Good. Slim hardcover in midnight green cloth lettered in gilt. Presumed first edition. 122 pp. Frontispiece portrait engraviong of Smith, tissue guard. Two plates (one in color) and a manuscript facsimile. The Memorial Sermon preached by Rev. Alfred Lee is included in the latter part of the book. Appendices inclue a memorial biographical sketch (Smith died in February, 1884), transcriptions of letters and newspaper articles. Very good, silver stamping bright, some wear at the extremities and a bit of light spotting. Smith, who wrote this reminiscence during his eighth decade, recalls his early years during which he entered the shipping business, traveling to ports around the globe; he eventually inherited his family's shipping business. A devout Episcopalian, he was instrumental in founding Calvary Church in Rockdale, Pennsylvania.
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Fair. Brown cloth cover. Heavy cloth loss to cover edges; bumped corners; bookplate pasted inside front cover; first (paper) layer of binding is split at front hinge; no markings in text. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
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