From collection Creating Acadia National Park: The George B. Dorr Research Archive of Ronald H. Epp

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Travels of Mr Dorr - Miscellaneous Docs
STAPLES
Travels - - files
1/26/20
files
Folder 1 Trasels 1853-65 Travels in New England
Europia & Gancial
1st Tup throudd 1871
1873-74 Trep Abroad
1874-78. European Trovel-See also Castle Haward files.
1882 Tripto Central Italy Streetg.
1882 Trep Dorr's to to Hare day fee Castle Howard files
1891-92 1885 meditervin Tup VIA Egypt Pelecture
1893 - Chicago Worlds fair
1895 - Marzelead
Folder 21900, 1902 1905 Belthrone, ltb Mitchell
1902 S.W. U.S. trep c Prof. Wn. Davis
1902 Canadion Pockies
1903 Virginia Springs o Bowditeh brothers
1904 Dari memorie of Trup Seeria Nevodal
mt. whitney Yellowstone (S.A.N.P.,Pg.26).
Folder 3 1904 Dorr's Seeria Menori Continced. Influences.
1904 Segusta N.P., yourself & Kingo Cargo N.P. does
Felder 4 1892 Siens Club-Listory
1900- Owers Valley, ind. Ray DeLay.
Pitmen shorthand-nut translated
1919- Trep to Colorado, Sap. Caference Rockallt.N.P.
2
Travel
1925 ascent of Ut. Katahdeji
1925-Tup to Colords Seep Conference Mesa Verd
1926 - Palisades Seep Washagon.D.C.
Harward together travellers Club
G.B. DORR on ]
Notes on matters to tell about
Florida, my mother and father's visit there to St.
Augustine in 1850's; my father and my brother in the
late 60's a with Henry Bowditch a companion; our own
visit in the early 1880's, to St. Augustine when the
railroad went no further.
The trip up the
river to the great spring in which it rose, clear to
the deep bottomyand the torch lighted trip up at night
with dark forests on either side.
The St. John's
River with its orange plantations.
The old book
of the naturalist
which
Mr. Caldwalder of Philadelphia lent mc in first edition
when I was staying with Mrs. Coles in Philadelphia;
and the trip across the southern Appalachians whie
when only Indians inhabited them contained in the same
volume.
Canoeing in New England waters.
2
Lenox and the Berkshires in early days.
Newport in the early days.
Rowing and sailing
Spending our days on the water in the 1868 and 1869 at
Bar Harbor with Androw Rodick as captain and
his little schooner, The Lark.
When we
caught our fish, landed on a beech,built a fire, put up
three sticks above it and swung a kettle and cooked our
fish.
No shore was private then.
English
Palm Sunday in Rome if not already told.
Easter in Rome.
The old etruscan cities.
3
The eblipse of the sun when I was staying with
Colonel Fortyee at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The hurrying dinosaur. whose tracks were found in
Connecticut in a sandstone quarry, his footprints
marked upon an ancient beach.
The Southern Appalachians.
The far-off past, has always held great interest for no
as the cause of the present, and in itself, as a world
in contrast to our own.
And as I cane to know the
southorn Appalachians I wondered at their origin and of
the older world which preceded them. And presently
I got hold of new studies in goology which made things
clear and what I learned was this, that formerly -
once upon a time, as the old fairy tales commenced,H
there was a continent washing by the Atlantic ocean
on one side and by a great inland sea upon the other,
the Western