COKE, E[dward] T[homas] [1807-1888]. A Subaltern’s Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, During The Summer and Autumn of 1832. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l., [ix]-xii, [13]-222, [2]ads; iv, 188. 8 pp. of ads bound in at front of Vol. I. modern half cloth (scattered foxing). New York: J. & J.Harper, 1833.
First American Edition. An interesting account of the author’s travels through and impressions of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New York, Boston, Trenton, the Shaker Colony at Lebanon Springs, York, Kingston, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Fredericton, St. John’s, Halifax. Unfortunately Coke’s tour was cut short by fear of the cholera epidemic. His narrative includes remarks on the miserable conditions of the emigrants at York, and of the tensions surrounding the Maine-New Brunswick border dispute for control of the lumbering territory, which eventually led to the Aroostook War in 1839.
Clark III 22. Howes C-546. Sabin 14239. TPL 1703. cfGagnon I 925. cfLande 1682. Story p. 103.