Tracy, Charles 1810-1885 nota See Tracy Leg book fele in Thomas category FirstSearch: WorldCat Detailed Record Page 1 of 2 OC LC FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV WorldCat Detailed Record Click on a checkbox to mark a record to be e-mailed or printed in Marked Records. Staff View My Account Options Comments Exit Home Databases Searching Results Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Go to page WorldCat results for: ti: mount and ti: desert. Record 262 of WorldCat Subjects E-mail Print Export Help 472. 262 Mark: Prev Next The log book from the voyage from New York to Mount Desert Island, stay there, and return July, August, September 1855 by Charles Tracy. Charles Tracy 1855 English Book 1 V. (unpaged) ; 29 cm. [S.I., FIND RELATED More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author I Advanced options Find Items About: Tracy, Charles. (4) Title: The log book from the voyage from New York to Mount Desert Island, stay there, and return July, August, September 1855 by Charles Tracy. Author(s): Tracy, Charles. Publication: [S.I., Year: 1855 Description: 1 V. (unpaged) ; 29 cm. Language: English SUBJECT(S) Geographic: Maine -- Maine -- Mount Desert Island -- Description and travel. Note(s): First record of a summer family. Author accompanied by daughter who later became Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Sr. Document Type: Book Entry: 19810706 Update: 20041201 Accession No: OCLC: 7559103 Database: WorldCat DO http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp07sw04-49576-e2a... 12/3/2004 C.B.Doir's Commentory on Tracy Log: 1855. The first stages of Mr. Tracy's journal I did not have; copied with the rest but left to be done separately, and now, at the moment of writing, I can not put my hand on them. But these pages come back to me in memory clearly, save for certain details. Mr. Tracy starts, amusingly, with 'the children flattening their noses against the windowpanes' in his house on 17th Street, New York, on a morning of pelting rain, looking out for the stage which was to come and get them all and take them to the station. They were sure it would not come Then it came and they all bundled in, bag and baggage, and the whole family went off to Boston, to the Tremont House I think it was, to spend the night and make connection with the friends they were to join, and to make sure of their tickets and state- rooms for the morrow on the Boston and Bangor steamboat line which was to carry them to Rockland the following afternoon where they would transfer to a lesser steamer that would take them on to Southwest Harbor, Mount Desert Island, and there leave them. 2. Such a way of going was but a recent possibility at that time, sprung from the trade steamboat service had created between local ports along the shore and Boston, in salt fish, lumber and the much-appreciated lobster this latter in bulk, so great was the demand. Passenger service in amount and value was but a bi-product to this and was only just beginning to be taken advantage of by sportsmen coming down in the spring to fish in the lakes and streams, or by hunters in the fall. Bar Harbor as a port for steamboats of any kind had no existence then nor would have till 1868, thirteen years later, when we came down ourselves, steamers putting in to Bar Harbor only once a week that summer on their freight- collecting way from Portland, as a terminus, to Eastport at the Canadian Line. One took, for this, the train from Boston to Portland, a two hours' trip, to catch the steamer leaving in the early evening, reaching Bar Harbor the end of the following Torenoon, making long stops everywhere upon the route to leave or take on freight, the main business of the line. 3. with Mr. Tracy and his family the Rev'd Dr. Stone of Brookline, Massachusetts, also with a good-sized family, had arranged to come and there were others whom the narrative in its progress will bring forth, who ultimately brought the party up to twenty-six in all. When the journal, which I have preserved, opens the party, transferring at dawn at Rockland to the local freight-collecting steamer which was to bring them on to Southwest Harbor and drop them there, had just ar- rived at Somesville, the little village at the head of the Elacial fiord, the 'River' or Somes Sound as it is called, where they had arranged to stay, some making their way there from Southwest Harbor by wagon, others, at their will, being rowed up the Sound. Somes Sound has the distinction of being the only true and complete glacial flord on the eastern coast of the United States, extending beyond Somesville itself, at the head of navigation, in a tide-swept estuary for another mile, and, interrupting the Island's ocean-fronting mountain chain at its entrance just north of Southwest Harbor, leaves but a slight subsidence to divide Mount Desert Island into two at its center. 4. When Governor Bernard, of Massachusetts, of which the so-called District of Maine was then a part, visit- ed the Island of Mount Desert, which the State had grant- ed him, barring squatters' rights, in reward "for dis- tinguished service", sailing down in a Government ship from Fort Williem in Boston Harbor with a considerable outfit in the way of surveyors and others to take note of his now possession, he anchored off Southwest Harbor, which, sheltered by outside lesser islands, he calls the Great Harbor of Mount Desert, and was rowed up the 'River' to visit Somes, ct the head of it, then -- 1763 -- just arrived with his family on their first, his own second, trip and completing the log house which was to be his home -- very neat and orderly, the Governor notes. Mr. Tracy's journal, lively and entertaining in itself, is notable as giving us the first account we have of the coming of summer visitors to Mount Desert Island, which was later to swell to so great a flood, drawn from all portions of the country. He presents an admirable portrait of the Island and its people as he found it. 5. One of the party, Frederick Church, famous artist and painter of great scenery, had visited the Island, in exploration of the coast, the summer before -- that of 1854 -- and had given Tagle Lake its name from the many eagles he saw scaring over it -- sea eagles of the fish- ing species, whose fornidable scientific title is Haliaetus leucocephalus or, turned into the vernacular, the White- headed Sea Bagle, abundant naturally along these coastal shores and frequent still. It is interesting to note in this earliest account of the Island from the surer-visitor point of view the evidance of the great lire which swept over the western side of the mountain we now call Cadillac from some point south of Eagle Lake, for days together, fed by the slash left from early lumbering and driven before a southwest wind in as time of drought. This, according to accounts which have come to us, took place in 1835, twenty years before the Tracy visit, and burnt so long and fiercely as to have loft a deep impression on the early settlers' mind. It was set, the story runs, by a small boy sent out to watch the cattle grazing on the shoots of the hardwood trees which had been cut for lumber and made good pasture, though the cattle must wander far to get their fill. The boy confessed that be had set the fire; 6. he wanted to see it, burn, he said! And so, abundantly, he did, and all upon the Island then besides. It is interesting, too, to note that the Coast Survey at that time had a surveyor living on the moun- tain top in 'a shelter looking out upon the seal and taking observations. They called the mountain Newport then, but how this came about there is nothing to tell. Thirteen years later, in 1868, when we first came down and ascended it, the name had changed to Green Mountain inappropriate surely in the light of what Mr. Tracy tells of its fire-scarred, western side reflecting, from across the lake, the red hues of the sinking sun, while the east- ern side is precipitous and naturally bare of vegetation. At that time, in 1868, the name Newport had, in some mysterious way, got shifted to the eastern mountain of the range looking down precipitously on Schooner Head, a mountain which was nameless for Rr. Tracy though staying at the old Lynam farmhouse at the Head. From the early settlers of the Island, not interested in climbing, the mountains had received no names other than those of the men who lumbered round their bases -- Jordan, Sargent, and the rest. The lakes, too, had none save, for like reason, those of the men who lived upon their borders lumbering the forests there, convenient to haul the logs 7. away in winter time across the ice; but they distin- guished them in a way by their size or the position they occupied as Great Pond for Eagle Lake, Southwest Fond for the present Bubble Pond, and Long Pend for the else nameless lake Mr. Tracy describes as lying behind the mountains to the west of Somes Sound. It is worth noting that among these early settlers the name lake -- of Letin origin -- did not exist; all sheets of water on the Island, of whatever size or character, they called ponds, and this name for them still exists today. In reading Mr. Tracy's journal, the earliest record we have of surmer-visitor travel to Mount Desert Island, one needs to remember, to get the right perspective, that only two centuries and 9. help before, on the 4th of September, 1604, Champlain, brought out by De Ments, on his trip for the founding of Acadia, as nevigator and lieutenant, sailed up into the broad sheet of water later called Frenchmans Bay to the Narrows, and, discovering the nountainous land be had sailed past on the west to be an island, named it on the spot l'Isle des Monts Deserts the island of the bare and lonely hills, a name that has persisted strangely through all change of race and times to the present day. But, finding his way blocked at the 8. Narrows and returning the next day, he came on an Indian encampaent at what is now called Hulls Cove and walting over a night to make friends with them W83 guided by them on his further way around Mount Desert Island and up through Penchacot Bay and its long estuary to the ralls just above the city of Bangor, founded on the mill power those falls furnished and the good shipping opportunity from their base. The river did not boar the name of Penobscot then but the Noruubogue, as it was rendered by the French in their early narratives. [G.B.DORR] LINDA Sawtelle Call. B49.F8 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BAR HARBOR, MAINE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT October 5, 1931. Dear Mr. Sawtelle: Mr. Satterlee wrote me about the Charles Tracy 1855 diary, telling me of your wish to have a copy of it for your museum, The original was loaned me by Mrs. Morgan and her sister Mrs Hoppin, who was staying with her that fall at Schooner Head and told of the diary's existence. I had a copy made as oppor- tunity came. This was before the Park's establishment. I have been meaning to have a fair CO.Y made from the copy taken then and could have one made at the same time for you if you desire. I could like to look it over with you. There are you now? Yours sincerely, GED-0 Mr. William Utis Sawtelle, Islesford, Maire. Epp, Ronald C. 1938-39 From: Epp, Ronald Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:25 PM To: 'Nancy Howland' Cc: 'Mazlish@acadia.net Subject: Tracy Log Nancy, George B. Dorr authored--prior to 1940--these eight pages of editorial comments on "The Tracy Log. " It is appropriate to title this essay "George B. Dorr Commentary on The Tracy Log" in order that authorship questions do not persist. His essay provides the first known commentary on the significance of "Mr. Tracy's journal" at a time when the diary's existence was only known to Morgan Library staff since the original had been deposited there " in 1932 by J.P. Morgan, Jr., whose mother, Frances, was the daughter of Charles Tracy" (The Tracy Log Book, 1855, edited by Anne Mazlish, Acadia Publishing Co., Bar Harbor, ME, 1977, p. 16) Mr. Dorr's commentary was delivered to Jesup Memorial Library in a National Park Service envelope bearing his signature, accompanied by two versions of the Morgan original: one unedited version lacking the introductory material thast describes the Tracy party travels (July 30 to August 1, 1855 ) to Mount Desert Island and the other fuller version edited by Mr. Dorr and his secretary, Phyllis Sylvia. It is not known whether the public was aware of these documents, nor whether the Dorr commentary and the two versions of "The Tracy Log" at the Jesup Memorial Library were accessible prior to the publication of the Mazlish edition. I hope you find this helpful and that this information will be attached to these documents. Of course, it should also be reflected in your online catalog. Ronald Harry Epp, Ph.D. Director of the University Library & Assoc. Professor of Philosophy Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH 03106 603-668-2211, ext. 2165 603-424-6149 (home) Original Message From: Nancy Howland [mailto:nhowland@jesup.lib.me.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:50 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: RE: Spirit of Acadia Meeting Site for 6.7.05 Ron - It's fine for the group to meet on June 7th from 1-3p.m. at the library. Would you tell me again what we have in the envelope with the Tracy Log that pertains to George Dorr? Thanks - Nancy > Original Message > From: Epp, Ronald [mailto:r.epp@snhu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:42 AM > To: nhowland@jesup.lib.me.us > Subject: Spirit of Acadia Meeting Site for 6.7.05 > > 1 6/24/2019 The log book : voyage from New York to Mount Desert Island, stay there, and return : autograph manuscript, 1855 July-Sept. (Book, WorldCat Search WorldCat Search Advanced Search Find a Library