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Fortunately, for today's reader, John H. B. Latrobe was a journal-keeper. "Southern Travels" reveals Latrobe at his best: a writer whose descriptive powers bring a two-month period in late 1834 into sharp focus. Latrobe records the events of his journey from New York to Natchez, where Mrs. Latrobe planned to stay the winter with her family, and of his return trip by stagecoach to their home in Baltimore. Latrobe's eye for detail is unsurpassed. Life on shipboard, the Creole city of New Orleans, the river town of Natchez, and the hazards of stagecoach travel all come to life under his pen- and his brush. An accomplished artist, he produced watercolors of sights encountered along the way and adorned his journal with marginal drawings. Latrobe, son of Benjamin H. B. Labtrobe, architect and designer of the nation's capitol, chose law as his profession. That he was accomplished in other fields as well is evident by perusing his journal. Here is an agreeable companion to guide the reader through the nineteeth-century South.
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SOUTHERN TRAVELS; JOURNAL OF JOHN H.B. LATROBE 1834. Edited with an Introduction by Samuel Wilson, Jr. [[John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe.]
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New Orleans, LA: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1986., 1986
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First edition limited to 2500 copies (as stated upon copyright page). xxii, 118, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Color pictorial dust jacket rubbed with some foxing; slight bumping/scuffing at edges. Pale yellow cloth. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at rear endpaper is publisher's promotional order card with past owner's mailing label still affixed. The book features the personal journal accounts of John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe (1803 -1891), son of renowned neoclassical architect Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764-1820), regarding his October-December 1834 travels from New York to New Orleans and Natchez by ship and his return to Baltimore by stagecoach. ISBN 0917860217. Seller Inventory # PXZP-20203
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