Journals 9.1 – Seward’s Travels Around the World (Part 1)

Originally posted on Windows into History:

Niagara Falls, painted by William Morris Hunt in 1878

William H. Seward’s Travels Around the World was published posthumously in 1873 by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Of all the journal writers I have explored so far he was the most famous, although his fame was not as a result of his writing.

Had history taken a different turn, Seward could well have been the 16th President of the United States of America. A Governor of New York from 1839-1842...