Travel Journal,, 1831

Summary: Typed copy of "Diary of My Journey from Muelhausen in Thuringia, via Bremen, to the United States of North America in the year 1831, Written for my Friends by John Augustus Roebling," translated from the German (with occasional notes) by Edward Underwood and with a forward by Hamilton Schuyler.

Regular entries describe Roebling's voyage from Germany to the United States via the ship Edward August, but also include a brief description of his travel to Bremen, Germany, from which he sailed, and his preparation for the voyage. The journal includes details about food, passenger regulations and conditions aboard ship. Immigration procedures, lodgings, wages, customs, impressions and expectations of Americans, their cities and government are described while in Philadelphia. The journal ends with plans for a colonizing party to settle in Pennsylvania or Ohio. Roebling also mentions a group of friends that departed earlier from Bremen, on board the Henry Barclay, and their arrival in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 27.

Roebling's journal was originally published in German at Eschwege, in 1832, by the Roebling Printing House. An English edition was privately printed in 1931 by the Roebling Press in Trenton, New Jersey.