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ALFRED DOMETT (1811-1887)
Journal of a tour in Canada, the United States and Jamaica, 1833-1835. ‘Travellers’ Twaddle, or A Tour in Canada & the United States: describing the Outside of the Towns & People: according to First Impressions …, Volume I From Rimousky to Mt. Vernon’; ‘Journal of a Tour in the United States and Jamaica, or Trans-atlantic Hodge-podge …, Volume the 2nd From Washington to Port Antonio.’ 8° (183 x 116mm), 2 vols in manuscript, in slip cases.
together with 7 unframed pencil drawings by the author, 4 ¼ x 21 5/8in. (10.7 x 54.8cm.) and smaller: ‘Squires Hatch, Blandford, Upper Canada, May 1843’; ‘Queenston Heights. Brock’s monument & River Niagara, May 1834’; ‘Sugar-making: 4 o’clock AM April 1834’; ‘John and Joseph Hatch and Toby their dog …’; ‘Maple-sugar boiling in the back woods of Upper Canada 1834’; ‘Monument at Baltimore … August 1834’; ‘Black River Jamaica: from the Harbour March 1st 1835’; and ‘Port Antonio Titchfield Navy Island and the Bog Estate, May 1835’
Domett, the son of a Camberwell ship owner, travelled to Canada, the United State and West Indies 1833-35, and gained some experience conveyancing in Upper Canada in the winter of 1833. A lawyer, poet and colonial statesman, he would emigrate to Nelson, New Zealand in April 1842. In New Zealand he was a public servant for 30 years, specialising in land administration. He became the country’s fourth Premier (Colonial Secretary) in 1862-63.
Extracts from Domett’s present manuscript were published in 1955 (E. A. Horsman and L.R. Benson, eds., The Canadian Journal of Alfred Domett, London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario Press). Domett’s Papers 1801-1866 are in the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
Journal of a tour in Canada, the United States and Jamaica, 1833-1835. ‘Travellers’ Twaddle, or A Tour in Canada & the United States: describing the Outside of the Towns & People: according to First Impressions …, Volume I From Rimousky to Mt. Vernon’; ‘Journal of a Tour in the United States and Jamaica, or Trans-atlantic Hodge-podge …, Volume the 2nd From Washington to Port Antonio.’ 8° (183 x 116mm), 2 vols in manuscript, in slip cases.
together with 7 unframed pencil drawings by the author, 4 ¼ x 21 5/8in. (10.7 x 54.8cm.) and smaller: ‘Squires Hatch, Blandford, Upper Canada, May 1843’; ‘Queenston Heights. Brock’s monument & River Niagara, May 1834’; ‘Sugar-making: 4 o’clock AM April 1834’; ‘John and Joseph Hatch and Toby their dog …’; ‘Maple-sugar boiling in the back woods of Upper Canada 1834’; ‘Monument at Baltimore … August 1834’; ‘Black River Jamaica: from the Harbour March 1st 1835’; and ‘Port Antonio Titchfield Navy Island and the Bog Estate, May 1835’
Domett, the son of a Camberwell ship owner, travelled to Canada, the United State and West Indies 1833-35, and gained some experience conveyancing in Upper Canada in the winter of 1833. A lawyer, poet and colonial statesman, he would emigrate to Nelson, New Zealand in April 1842. In New Zealand he was a public servant for 30 years, specialising in land administration. He became the country’s fourth Premier (Colonial Secretary) in 1862-63.
Extracts from Domett’s present manuscript were published in 1955 (E. A. Horsman and L.R. Benson, eds., The Canadian Journal of Alfred Domett, London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario Press). Domett’s Papers 1801-1866 are in the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
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