Notes from auction catalog
BURMA EXPEDITION 1867-1868 A manuscript account by an expedition member, with photographs, 1868 An eye-witness manuscript journal and account (with accompanying photographs) of the exploratory expedition up the Irrawaddy river to Upper Burma led by Major Edward B. Sladen in 1868, written by Theodosius Stewart, a merchant appointed to accompany the expedition by the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce.
Consists of 63 pages (36pp., recto and verso on diary paper headed "Rough Diary or Scribbling Journal" covering period from 2 December 1867 to 25 Feb. 1868; 27pp. on plain paper, recto only, held with split pins), ink on paper, some edges frayed, folio, [December 1867-May 1868]; with a typescript copy
PHOTOGRAPHS A group of 12 albumen prints of Burma, including Kachin groups (2, taken at Bhamo), landscape on the Irrawaddy in Southern China ("40 miles above Burma"), the Great Bell of Dhammazedi ("Great Bell", with note identifying two Europeans in the images as Stewart and Captain Williams, who took the photo), Mandalay (4, one with loss to one corner), a fine "Bell Pagoda", and others, [c.1868]
A group of approximately 25 autograph letters signed written by Stewart from India, to his mother, noting money worries, cholera outbreak and illness, hunting trips, a ballooning accident, etc. upwards of 50 pages, old folds, some in envelopes, most stamped with date, 1847-1851, together with a large nut carved with 2 portraits of Stewart and his name "Theo Stewart" (group).