IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
CHARLOTTE FAXON
TRAVEL DIARY, 1864-1867
67 pages
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ACQUISITION: |
The travel
diary (donor no. 143) was donated by Esther
Everett, Faxon's granddaughter, in 1993. |
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ACCESS: |
The travel
diary is open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Katherine Price, 1994. |
Biography
Charlotte Faxon was a teacher
who traveled widely during the Civil War period, and kept an extensive travel
diary. She left Vermont in 1864 at age
eighteen and traveled by land and sea to California, by way of New York and
Panama. Charlotte Faxon lived in San
Francisco for three years, teaching mathematics at Napa College. In 1867 she traveled back to New York by way
of Nicaragua. Later Charlotte Faxon
settled in Iowa, where she taught school, married Jeremiah Everett and raised a
family on a farm. After her husband's
death in 1909, Charlotte Faxon returned to California.
Scope and
Content Note
The travel diary dates from 1864
to 1867, and contains vivid descriptions of the traveling conditions and social
customs a young woman experienced during the Victorian era, including accounts
of foot-travel in the Central American jungle.
Many of Charlotte Faxon's accounts of Central America portray white
travelers' attitudes toward the indigenous populations. Charlotte Faxon's original travel diary was
transcribed into its present form by her daughter, Edith Everett. The travel diary is sixty-seven pages long,
and contains an introduction and epilogue by Edith Everett, as well as a
foreword by Isabella Van Osdall Churchill, a friend of Charlotte Faxon's from
California.
Related
Collections
Mildred
Fox Everett papers
Everett was Charlotte Faxon's
daughter-in-law.
Beverly
George Everett
Charlotte Faxon was the grandmother of Beverly Everett's
husband, Lawrence Everett.
Folder no. Description
Folder 1
Travel diary, 1864-1867