Don Quixote Exhibit - Station 7

Wallis, Severn Teackle. Glimpses of Spain; Or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847. New York, 1849.

From the collection of Harry Sieber

and

Wallis, Severn Teackle. Spain: Her Institutions, Politics and Public Men. Boston, 1853

From the collection of the Maryland Historical Society

In 1847 Wallis, never a healthy man, decided to travel abroad to regain his strength. He chose to spend several months in Spain, and as a result, wrote about his experiences in Glimpses of Spain; Or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847. In 1849, he revisited Spain, commissioned by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States to examine and report on the title to public lands in Florida, as affected by Spanish grants made during negotiations in 1819 between the two countries. This second journey produced a second book, Spain; Her Institutions, Politics and Public Men, which at the time of its publication was one of the most insightful portrayals of Spain in the English language.