Word: itinerarium
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...trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
Hamilton's Itinerarium is one of the most candid and engaging travel diaries to come down from a colonial American. It is casual to the point of slightness, a bit snobbish and of little historical importance. But it brings the speech of the time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City...
...priests saw to it that they knew of the Cleveland Congress and its aims and would pray for its success. Of the faithful millions, some 200.000 were devoutly setting out all over the land and in the Manhattan Cathedral the Cardinal and his entourage knelt briefly, chanted the Itinerarium, an ancient prayer of the Church for those about to depart on a journey...
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