Travel journal of Abram E. Cutter

Journal of American Abram E. Cutter's tour of Britain showcasing local areas he visited and including a vignette view of the town or village. The opening page is titled 'Souvenir of my Summer vacation 1873, note-sheets gathered by the way'. The author travelled from Liverpool through Chester and Scotland, returning via Stratford-upon-Avon and Wales. The writer's private notes regarding the places he visited are interspersed with extensive quotations from works of other travellers and poets, as well as other inscriptions collected on his journey. The pages of the volume are not bound chronologically and there are some entries which seem to relate to years after 1873, with an entry from August 1878 being the latest. Various inserts relating to parts of Britain and Ireland which Cutter himself did not visit or write about extensively are also included within the volume, as would be in a scrapbook.

Abram Cutter (1822-1900), "bookseller and stationer of Chas [Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA]" was born on 24 January 1822 in Newburyport, Essex [Massachusetts, USA], to Abraham and Mary (née Gibson) Cutter. He moved to to Boston in 1843 before returning to Charlestown in 1852, where he found business as a bookseller under the company name McKim and Cutter. Cutter was married twice: first on 7 July 1853 to Mary Eliza Edmands, and after her death on 11 February 1854, to Elizabeth Finley Smith, of New York, on 13 October 1857. He died on 14 May 1900

Source: Pender, P. (2015). Constructing a Canonical Colonial Poet: Abram E. Cutter's Bradstreetiana and the 1867 Works. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 109(2), 223–246. https://doi.org/10.1086/681959 [accessed 29 June 2022]

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