The Uncommercial Traveller

Chapter 40: FOOTNOTES.

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A series of conversational sketches and travel notes in which the narrator wanders through London, provincial towns, and occasional sea voyages, recording small incidents, local characters, and institutional scenes. Combining keen observation, anecdote, and wry humour, the pieces range from vivid reports of accidents and maritime mishaps to reflections on theatres, workhouses, churches, and street life, often shifting between affectionate curiosity and social criticism. The tone alternates between light-hearted reportage and sober compassion, and the episodic structure uses detailed description to illuminate the everyday oddities and hardships of urban and itinerant existence.

FOOTNOTES.

[188] After this Uncommercial Journey was printed, I happened to mention the experience it describes to Lord Houghton. That gentleman then showed me an article of his writing, in The Edinburgh Review for January, 1862, which is highly remarkable for its philosophical and literary research concerning these Latter-Day Saints. I find in it the following sentences:—‘The Select Committee of the House of Commons on emigrant ships for 1854 summoned the Mormon agent and passenger-broker before it, and came to the conclusion that no ships under the provisions of the “Passengers Act” could be depended upon for comfort and security in the same degree as those under his administration. The Mormon ship is a Family under strong and accepted discipline, with every provision for comfort, decorum and internal peace.’