1840 Honeymoon Diary Front Leaf

So begins the 1840 honeymoon diary of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon. Her later diary written in 1845-47 described life as young mother and wife of a Congressman in Washington, DC was published in White House History, Issue 33.

Commencing October 10th, 1840
Volume 1st containing
Mrs. Elizabeth L Dixon’s
ideas and opinions of men, women
and children, the face of the country
soil and productions, curiosities
ancient and modern, in a word
of Europe and the Europeans.
Interspersed with scraps of poetry
original and quoted, dead flowers and
moss, leaves, and pictures from
memorable spots, interesting for
“novelty and history” connected
with them– and accurate drawings
of the places – the whole in 3, 4 or
5 volumes according as the ideas last
& dedicated to “The Teeny Family”
vis Dr. Leonard Woods Jr. DDs, President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME the compaguon du voyage of James & Mrs. Dixon 1841 –Sold by all the Blank Booksellers