Category: Travel Writing

Canal Reminiscences Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal

Bagby, George William, 1828-1883· 2 chapters· 5,910 words

My first thought was to print these reminiscences in a newspaper. But our papers are unable to pay for contributions. It was not so in the former days. Well do I remember when the _Dispatch_ cheerfully gave me its dollars, not merely for stories and sketches, but for trifles l...

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1. Part 1

My first thought was to print these reminiscences in a newspaper. But our papers are unable to pay for contributions. It was not so in the former days. Well do I remember when t...

2. Part 2

Travelling always with my father, who was a merchant, it was natural that I should become acquainted with merchants. But I remember very few of them. Mr. Daniel H. London, who w...