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In this final part of Alexander’s diary, he has arrived in Boston after his first voyage as a ship’s surgeon. He is in America for the first time and has much to write about as he compares Boston to his hometown Glasgow. He tours the city with an expat veterinarian, samples the beer and rye whiskey, and meets an influential law professor at Harvard. Then after returning to Scotland he takes a voyage to Iceland. His story is an amazing adventure and he has “the sight of a lifetime”. He writes many pages describing the grandeur before him, his climb of a volcano, the hospitable Icelandic people, and a close encounter with a whale! This mans writing lured us into recording four episodes rather than just the one we had planned. We hope you have been enjoying his story as much as we have.
Quincy Market, North Market Street, looking toward Faneuil Hall Square, 1880s. Courtesy of Bostonian Society.
Sigfús Eymundsson j(1837 – 1911) Icelandic Photographer and Bookseller
The following link tells the story of the SS Copeland Wreck
https://www.scottishshipwrecks.com/copeland/
Here’s the wonderful YouTube short about the Island of Stroma
More family photos, unidentified.
Remember the “Servants” letter we shared where he stated…”I want to beg a great favour from you if you will kindly oblige if convienant to you to send me one of your photoes of carriage wich wee had taken together.” Not sure if these are the photos but worth mentioning.
Alexander and Agnes’s Second Daughter Alexandra. The daughter Alexander never got to meet. Her 1924 Certificate from Trinity College of Music London and a painting done of her by her husband, Edward Maurice Feild.
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I have a full transcription of his two diaries, part IV can be read here:
Diary Discoveries 