MORRIS, William, of Swindon. Letters sent Home. Out and Home Again by way of Canada and the United States; Or, What a Summer's Trip told me of the People and the Country of the Great West. Swindon: Printed by the Author, n.d. [1874].
Small 8vo. Original cloth, gilt; pp. xv, 477; occasional illusts. to text; slightly faded on spine, else a very good copy.
First edition; a trade edition subsequently appeared from Frederick Warne & Co. Morris based this account of his travels in North America on letters published in his column for the Swindon Advertiser. The book describes his arrival at Quebec and the ensuing tour through Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Niagara, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Portland, and his return home.
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