Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida from July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766. John Bartram (review)

BOOK REVIEWS89 moulded in tastes and manners and aims by the social group, as a needed counterweight against atomistic, mechanistic, and pseudomystical psychology. Rufus M. Jones John Woolman, Quaker, by Janet Whitney. London, George S. Harrap & Co, 1943. 432 pp. 21 shillings. AT LONG LAST has appeared the English edition of Janet Whitney's life of Woolman, already reviewed in these pages (31:84). Here one may call attention to the differences and to some of the vicissitudes of the English edition. In British format, the book is about 40 per cent thinner, 30 per cent lighter, and 40 per cent dearer than the American edition. The price was increased twice, a total of 68 per cent, while the announced date of publication was at least twice delayed. This delay was due in part to no less than four losses of mail at sea: loss of a copy of a contract, of a copy of the MS, of a copy of the American edition, sent over for the printer to use as MS, and of a copy of the proof. The English publisher has thought it best to drop the word "American" from the title (Why?), and to make no reference to the earlier American edition. Instead we read "First published in 1943 by George S. Harrap & Co." It is probably "in conformity with the authorized economy standards " that fifteen of the thirty-eight appendixes are omitted. The paper is thin but the type face is attractive. The illustrations, including the "chapter decorations" by George Whitney, show up well. A table of contents, lacking in the American edition, is now provided, and some errors of the former are corrected. The new pagination means that page references, if they are to be usable on both sides of the Atlantic, must always give two citations instead of one. As the book has been widely read and already reviewed, nothing need be added here concerning its charm and interest. One may hope that publication of it in England will lead to the disclosure from sources now unknown of new data on Woolman's English visit—so "rapidly sketched" in his own journal, and with such "chariness" of detail. Henry J. Cadbury Diary of a Journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida from July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766. John Bartram. Annotated by Francis Harper. Vol. xxxiii, Part 1, New Series, of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, 1942, iv + 120 pp., illustrated with 22 plates and portrait of John Bartram. $2.00. ' I 'HE publication of this diary, not to be confused with the much better known Travels of William Bartram published in 1791, is a real contribution to the Bartram literature, since it is largely composed of hitherto unpublished manuscripts. This volume represents a thorough and painstaking accomplishment on the part of Dr. Harper, who has not only unearthed a great deal of previously unknown information concerning Vol. 32, Autumn 1943 90 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION the historical background of the manuscript and its various published portions, but has also carefully compared the accounts of subsequent naturalists of the same region and has himself traveled over most of the territory covered in the journey and thus discovered much valuable source material concerning the localities visited by John and William Bartram on their trip. Many of the excellent photographs were taken by Dr. Harper on these expeditions. It was the reviewer's privilege to spend several days with Dr. Harper in 1937 on such· a journey, looking for the type locality of Franklinia on the Altamaha River, and to observe the methodical way in which he revisited the places described in the journal. Of interest to Friends in this connection is the glowing tribute paid to Arthur Newlin Leeds, who shared many of these expeditions and contributed much to Dr. Harper's work. The introduction contains a wealth of historical background and discusses the various manuscript records of the trip, some of which were published in England. The chief source is the manuscript now owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Another copy transcribed by Darlington seems to contain some marginal notes by Major John K LeConte, another American naturalist of note...