Notes afoot
Subtitle: summer '75
Contributors: Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932; Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880; Chapin, Frank Woodruff; Cleaves, Benjamin Osgood
Published: 1875
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Students; Travel; Backpacking; Description and travel; Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1876; Harvard University
Description: "These notes may not have any literary value, but they show the venturesomeness of Harvard students sixty years ago to see the country before the days of bicycles or automobiles. The beauty of penmanship before the time of typewriters is evident in the copy made of them." -- Geo. S. Pine, May 16, 1935, [note tipped in].
Notes: Tintype of Daniel Webster Abercrombie, Frank Woodruff Chapin, James Edwin Cleaves, Benjamin Peirce, George Stevenson Pine in their walking clothes on leaf after flyleaf. Formal group photograph at end of volume.

Manuscript. Includes calculations of distances traveled and expenses, as well as biographical information.

"In the summer of 1874, Benjamin Osgood Peirce and George S. Pine tramped from Cambridge to Concord, Fitchburg, Worchester, Hensdale, Brattleboro, Manchester, Rutland, Woodstock, then by bus and train to Lisbon, and then on foot again to Franconia Notch, Bethlehem, Crawford Notch, to Conway, climbing mountains on the way, a distance carefully calculated by [Peirce] to be 275 miles. This tramp prompted the tramp of 1875, notes of which are given in this book, copied by Frank Woodruff Chapin . . . and presented by him to his friend Geo. S. Pine" -- [flyleaf].