Call Number:

MC.975.11.014

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.1 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

"Corrections of Journey in North America" (HC.MC.975.11.014), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

Undated

Creator:

Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847

Abstract:

Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847) was born at Earlham Hall, near Norwhich, England on August 2, 1788, the son of John and Catherine Gurney. In September 1817, he married Jane Birkbeck and the couple had two children. He was a Quaker minsiter and an influential prison reformer, and visited prisons in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and published writings concerning prison conditions. In September, 1827, he married Mary Fowler. He traveled to the United States, the West Indies, Canada, and Denmark during 1837. He again visited the U.S. in 1840, and made with John Adams and President Van Buren. Joseph John Gureny died in January, 1847 from a fall from his horse at age 59.

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript by Joseph John Gurney, which lists corrections to the published manuscript, "Journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie." Each page of the volume is numbered so that the corrections on each page match the corresponding page of the published version.