Emily Sharpless Townsend trip journal, mid 1840s

Identified on cover as a journal kept by Emily Sharpless Townsend on a trip to Illinois and Missouri with her parents. They travelled by stage and steamboat through Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, the Great Lakes, Cleveland, Niagara Falls, New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. The sisters recorded their visits to a variety of denominational churches including the Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, notes on public buildings and accommodations. Mention was made of interesting fellow passengers such as a Baptist minister who had labored for many years among the Cherokees and a certain Dr. Lowry who ".... is the first person I met with, that did not allow the Africans to be men." Most pages have been removed at some earlier date, author was courted by "Henry" while a passenger on the steamboat.