Scope and Contents note From the Series: Six volumes of journals written by Francis Tomes, describing three Atlantic Ocean round-trip crossings (between Liverpool and New York) and one seven-month overland business trip in the United States from October 1837 to May 1838. His business in importing British manufacturing goods had him traveling frequently, and he made over fifty trips across the Atlantic in his long business career. Tomes's trip throughout the United States in 1837-1838 was made to collect bad debts, and he traveled...