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Two items numbered 1890 and 1891 in the Library of Congress' massive volume entitled
A Guide to the Study of
the United States of America:
Representative Books
Reflecting the Development of American Life and Thought
Prepared under the Direction of Roy P. Basler
By Donald H. Mugridge and Blanche P. McCrum
GENERAL REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DIVISION · REFERENCE DEPARTMENT
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ·WASHINGTON: 1960
Supplement
1956–1965
Prepared under the Direction of Roy P. Basler
by Oliver H. Orr, Jr., and the Staff of the
Bibliography and Reference Correspondence Section
GENERAL REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DIVISION · REFERENCE DEPARTMENT
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS · WASHINGTON: 1976
Travel and Travelers
A. General Works 1875–1877
B. 19 Selected Travelers, 1754–1898
(chronologically arranged by the date of their travels)
1890. 1797–1807. JULIAN URSYN NIEMCEWICZ (1758–1841)
Niemcewicz was a Polish patriot, a statesman, and a prolific author. He was born in Lithuania and elected to the Polish parliament in 1788. Later he became Kosciuszko's aide-de-camp during the insurrection of 1794 and was captured and imprisoned. Upon his release he left for the United States with Kosciuszko in 1797. After living briefly in Philadelphia, he settled in Elizabeth, N.J., where he married a prominent widow. Family obligations recalled him to Poland in 1802, and he remained there for two years. From 1804 to 1807 he lived again in America, keeping journals that describe his domestic and private life and local people and scenes. Impressionistic in nature, the journals reflect the early and relatively unexplored history of American-Polish cultural relations.
1891. Under Their Vine and Fig Tree; Travels Through America in 1797–1799, 1805, with some further account of life in New Jersey. Translated and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Metchie J. E. Budka. Elizabeth, N.J., Grassmann Pub. Co. [1965] lvii, 398 p. illus. (Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society at Newark, v. 14) 65–15378 F131.N62 vol. 14
A translation of the author's manuscript notebooks, originally written in French or Polish and first published in Polish under the title Podróze po Ameryce, 1797–1807 (1959).
The otherwise extensive Vine and Fig Tree library does not yet contain this volume.
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