Charles William Shepherd archive of voyages to Iceland, circa 1844-1890.
Collection Number: 6869
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Charles William Shepherd archive of voyages to Iceland, circa 1844-1890.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6869
Abstract:
Manuscripts relating to travels to Iceland.
Creator:
no primary creator
Shepherd, Charles William.
Upcher, H. M.
Fowler, G. G.
Shepherd, Charles William. (Title of work: North-west peninsula of Iceland..)
Fiske Icelandic Collection
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The collection includes a field journal, two fair-copy journals, an annotated 1844
map of Iceland, several proof sections of Shepherd's The North-West Peninsula of Iceland
(1867) and a copy of the published book. It also includes correspondence and newspaper
clippings.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Charles William Shepherd Archive of Voyages to Iceland, #6869. Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Places:
Iceland -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
Bird watching -- Iceland.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Miscellaneous Notes
Item 1 |
Undated |
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Scope and Contents
Notes or a portion of a letter, undecipherable addressee and writer, mention of Reykjavik.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Supplies expenses
Item 2 |
Undated |
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Scope and Contents
Financial documents listing objects)
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Supply expense ledger
Item 3 |
May 1, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Financial document listing objects (such as paper and whisky)
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from C. W. Shepherd to "My dear Father"
Item 4 |
May 4, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Addressed from Reyk[j]avik. Mentions traveling.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from C. W. Shepherd to "My dear Father"
Item 5 |
May 5, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Mentions leaving from Reyk[j]avik that morning and traveling in Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from C. W. Shepherd to "My dear Father"
Item 6 |
May, 25, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Addressed from Thingnefs. Mentions the rain and snow of Iceland, continues discussion
of travel.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter "Accepted by Mr. Shepherd"
Item 7 |
May 28, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Mentions finances.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from James Retcher to "My dear Shepherd"
Item 8 |
August 25, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Addressed from Peterhead (presumably Scotland). Mentions a hurried message and difficulties
with the post and travel.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from O. V. Gislason to "My dear friend"
Item 9 |
April 24, 1864 |
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Scope and Contents
Addressed from Iceland. Mentions working on translating texts into Icelandic, asks
for assistance to travel to England.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from the Royal Geographical Society
Item 10 |
March 19, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Documents the receiving of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland and giving thanks for its donation to the Society.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from the Zoological Society of London
Item 11 |
March 21, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Gives thanks for the gift of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland to the library.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter from W. M. James to "My dear Shepherd"
Item 12 |
April 9, 1868 |
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Scope and Contents
Addressed from Fürstenbad. Discusses Shepherd's book (The North-West Peninsula of Iceland).
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Letter to Cheriton Bickley Kent from Kenny Mac Cormac
Item 13 |
July 21, 1870 |
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Scope and Contents
Discusses welding and mentions working in Iceland.
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Series II. Newspaper Book Reviews
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
The Morning Star
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February 6, 1863 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains advertisements, railway traffics, weather report, shipping intelligence,
police and law intelligence.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Maidstone Telegraph No. 419
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December 15, 1866 | |
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Scope and Contents
Samples of articles and topics: railway times, London markets, "Coroner's Inquiet,"
assorted advertisements, articles on trade unions, articles on education, police brutality,
"The Paris Exhibition," "Death of a Vegetarian from Abstemiousness, "Discovery of
a Skeleton in Ratcliffe Highway."
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
The Athenaeum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, London
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March 9, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Land and Water Vol. 3 No. 60
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March 16, 1867 | |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
The Globe and Traveller No. 21, 407, Evening
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March 11, 1867 | |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Gardeners Chronicle
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March 16, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Morning Herald
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April 4, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
London Review
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April 6, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
The Spectator
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April 20, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The St. Stephen's Chronicle, The Sorrows of Hypsipyle, The Wife's Litany
and Other Pieces in Verse, A Dictionary of Photography, Sunshine and Showers, Prose
Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Germany from the Baltic to the Adriatic; or Prussia,
Austria, and Venetia, with Reference to the Late War, The North-West Peninsula of
Iceland, being the Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Spring and Summer of 1862,
The Law of Libel, as Affecting the Newspaper Press, with proposed Amendments, The
Aeneis of Virgil, Zaida's Nursery Notebook, for the Use of Mothers, Pity, Man: A Story
of Light and Darkness, Practical Housekeeping, or the Duties of a Homewife, Maxon's
Standard Penny Readings, Africa. Prussia, How to Study the New Testament, and Dan's
Treasure; or, Labour and Love.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Daily News
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April 27, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
The Birmingham Daily Gazette Vol. 9 No. 1290
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April 29, 1867 | |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Lancet
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May 11, 1867 |
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Scope and Contents
Review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review
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May 30, 1867 | |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
The Times
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June 6, 1867 | |
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Scope and Contents
Among many others, contains a review of The North-West Peninsula of Iceland.
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Series III. Bound Manuscripts
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| Box 1 | Item 14 |
Travel Journal of C. W. Shepherd
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April 19, 1862 - June 27, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Rough travel itinerary on first page from April 19th to the end of June; writing begins
May 2, ends Friday, June 27; 116 pages of writing.
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| Box 1 | Item 15 |
Travel journal of H. M. Upchev
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April 19, 1862 - July 30, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Black cover. Has rough itineraries from April to August (writing appears to be from
April to July); begins with April 19, 1862; has a plant stuck between its last few
pages.
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| Box 1 | Item 16 |
Small black notepad
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April 28, 1862 - July 29, 1862 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes advertisement for the 1862 Royal Mail Steam Ship from Reykjavik to Copenhagen;
starting in April, very faded notes on travel (including weather); continues to July;
Jack Shepherd written on back cover.
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| Box 1 | Item 17 |
Journal with red cover
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July 17 186? - October 3, 186?? |
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Scope and Contents
Front inside cover has a rudimentary travel itinerary for July and August; back inside
cover continues to September and up until October 3; 123 written pages; begins with
leaving London on July 17 ,ends with September 3 with what should be Mývatn based
on the itinerary; the journal records details of travel and the landscapes.
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| Box 1 | Item 18 |
Small black wallet/purse with writings
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Scope and Contents
Only fragmentary papers (baggage ticket from Marseilles, some papers with names, Shepherd
is mentioned).
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Series iV. Additional Material
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| Box 1 | Item 19 |
The North-West Peninsula of Iceland: Being the Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the
Spring and Summer of 1862
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1867 |
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Scope and Contents
By C. W. Shepherd, M.A., F.Z.S., published in London 1867 by Longmans, Green, and
Co.; has a green cover.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Pages from The North-West Peninsula of Iceland
Item 20 |
1867 |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Goða-Foss painting
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Scope and Contents
1A - Rendering of landscape featuring waterfalls and mountains, two figures perched
to the top left
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Ísa-Fjörðr Town painting
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Scope and Contents
1B - Depicts a stretch of land cutting across a fjord; three boats to the right, several
small houses on the land-bridge
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Uppdráttr Íslands (Carte d'Islande) by Olafs Nikolas Olsens
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1844 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Title page describing the four maps in Icelandic and French)
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1844 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
No. 1, Map of Iceland (Ísland: Suðvestr - Fjórðúngr)
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1844 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
No. 2, Map of Iceland (Ísland: Suðaustr - Fjórðúngr)
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1844 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
No. 3, Map of Iceland (Ísland: Norðaustr - Fjórðúngr)
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1844 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
No. 4, Map of Iceland (Ísland: Norðvestr - Fjórðúngr)
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1844 | |