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Subjects discussed include the modes of transportation used, other travelers,
scenery along the way, towns and cities visited, and impressions of the English
and French. In an 1843 letter, Corbit compared England unfavorably with the
United States and remarked upon England's "unholy war upon the Chinese for pelf
and upon the poor nations of India for Territory." Notable in the correspondence
are references, some rather casually made, to personal encounters with individuals
who were or would become well-known, including Lucretia Mott, whom Corbit met
at a Friends Yearly Meeting in New York state in 1835 and again in London in
1840. Two other persons referred to were with Corbit on the steamer Britannia
on the way to Europe in 1843; these were Horace Mann, "a tall old fashioned
white headed man of about sixty!" and Julia Ward Howe, "a round full unintellectual
faced dame of about thirty... said to possess abundance of solid charms."
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