Content Description Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Narrative of the journey of Emily Jackson through the Eastern United States and Canada, with her sister Ina Jackson. They left Glasgow on 29 August sailed around the north coast of Ireland on 30 August and arrived in New York on 9 September. The Jacksons journeyed through Saratoga, Lake George, and Lacine Rapids (Montreal) and arrived in Toronto on 21 September. They visited Niagara Falls and returned to America moving through Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul, Pittsburgh, Washington...

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Ina`s narrative ends on 29th September 1884. She indicates there is a second volume, but this is not in the collections of the National Library of Scotland. The location of the second volume is unknown.