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The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes encompass watching the streetlamp lighters of San Francisco in 1912, to visiting the Royal Crescent in Bath in 2001, among many other memories. Art curator, educator, First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia; hiker, kite flyer and traveler, who made a second family with the new wife he found through placing a Personal Ad in a magazine after becoming a widower --- John Douglas Forbes followed an unusual path. M.E. Forbes, in An Afterword to the Memoirs, speaks of the 38-year “May-December” journey she shared with Dr. Forbes.
One bound volume - printed transcript of the diary of John Douglas Forbes recorded on board the convict ship Guildford on a journey from London to Sydney 1827. Includes list of convict indents. Transcription by Tony Satchell.
MS Acc10.142 comprises a transcript of 'Diary of a voyage on the Guildford, 1827 Mar. 6-1827 July 25' by John Douglas Forbes, with explanatory notes added by Doug Smith. Transcript is also available on CD-ROM. The diary was kept by Captain J. D. Forbes, of the 39th Regiment, who was an officer on the ship "Guildford" from London to Sydney in 1827 (1 packet).
Wodehouse congratulates Forbes on Murder in full view, comments on his current writing, his 80th birthday, his health, criticizes the Saturday Evening Post and the [New York Herald Tribune?] and sends Christmas cards.
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