Sargent, Angelina M.:

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NOTES OF TRAVEL AND MEMENTOS OF FRIENDSHIP. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. Maxey N. Van Zandt with the cordial regards of the author, Angelina M. Sargent Rochester N.Y. December 25th, 1894."An uncommon self-published account by an adventurous woman traveller. Amelia Sargent's text includes a description of a seven month stay in war-ravaged New Orleans in 1864, a tour of Florida in 1873, a trip on the transcontinental railroad to California the following year, and an 1878 camping trip to the Rocky Mountains. Also included is a small collection of family poetry and a brief description of a transatlantic journey to England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Holland and France in the early 1890s. Angelina Morse Foster Sargent (1829–1907) was the wife of James Sargent (1824–1910), investor, inventor and senior partner in Rochester's Sargent and Greenleaf Lock Company. The Sargents spent most winters travelling in the southern or western United States to escape the rigors of winter in northern New York. Later in their lives they became active suffragists, with Mrs. Sargent a life member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and Mr. Sargent donating to the cause. Much of the Sargents' travel took place when completion of the transcontinental rail system in the United States made American tourism in the western United States more popular, though it still remained an activity primarily for the elite. Mrs. Sargent's description of t

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