The following is a breakdown of Henry Shaw's travels during a period of two years. |
1840—1842
This trip lasted from July 11, 1840 to June 1, 1842. The Missouri Botanical Garden Archives has five volumes of diaries kept on this trip, but only the first four have been transcribed. As entries are posted on Travels with Henry Shaw, more links will be added.
| Volume 1 | Volume 3 |
| Volume 2 | Volume 4 |
| 7/11/1840 | left St. Louis |
| 7/13/1840 | Peru, IL |
| 7/14–7/15/1840 | Chicago |
| 7/17/1840 | Wisconsin |
| 7/18/1840 | Michilimackinac |
| 7/19/1840 | Detroit |
| 7/20/1840 | Cleaveland |
| 7/21–8/2/1840 | Buffalo, Rochester |
| 8/3/1840 | Lake Seneca |
| 8/4/1840 | Ithaca |
| 8/5/1840 | Geneva |
| 8/6/1840 | Canandaighua |
| 8/7/1840 | Rochester |
| There are no journal entries for the following 10 locations. | |
| Dublin, Ireland | |
| Sheffield, England | |
| Oxford, England | |
| London, England | |
| Paris, France | |
| Lyons, France | |
| Marseilles, France | |
| Leghorn, Italy | |
| Florence, Italy | |
| Rome, Italy | |
| 5/8–5/10/1841 | Naples, Italy |
| 5/10/1841 | Messina |
| 5/11/1841 | Catania |
| 5/12–5/13/1841 | Syracusa |
| 5/14–5/17/1841 | Malta |
| 5/21–5/26/1841 | Syra, Greece |
| 5/27–6/7/1841 | Athens |
| 6/9–6/10/1841 | Syra |
| 6/11/1841 | Smyrna, Asia Minor |
| 6/13/1841 | Smyrna |
| 6/21–6/23/1841 | Pera |
| 6/24–6/25/1841 | Bosphorus |
| 6/25–6/27/1841 | back at Pera |
| 6/28/1841 | Kaikei/Scutari |
| 6/29–7/4/1841 | Pera |
| 7/5/1841 | Princess Islands |
| 7/7–7/15/1841 | Pera |
| 7/16–7/25/1841 | Broussa |
| 7/26–8/7/1841 | Pera |
| 8/9–8/10/1841 | Smyrna |
| 8/11–8/27/1841 | Syra |
| 8/28/1841 | Athens, Greece |
| 8/29–8/30/1841 | Ionian Islands |
| 8/31–9/4/1841 | Corfu Island |
| 9/5/1841 | Vido Island |
| 9/6/1841 | Laucadia Island |
| 9/7/1841 | Cephalonia Island |
| 9/8/1841 | Lixouri |
| 9/9/1841 | Cephalonia |
| 9/11–9/13/1841 | Zante, Greece |
| 9/14/1841 | Corfu Island |
| 9/20/1841 | Trieste, Italy |
| 9/21–9/22/1841 | Lipizza |
| 9/23–10/9/1841 | Trieste |
| 10/10/1841 | left for Vienna |
| 10/13–10/20/1841 | Vienna, Austria |
| 10/21/1841 | Baden |
| 10/21–11/19/1841 | Vienna |
| 11/23–11/27/1841 | Trieste |
| 11/28–12/16/1841 | Venice |
Volume 4 |
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| 12/16–1/21/1842 | Venice, Italy |
| 1/21–1/24/1842 | Verona |
| 1/25–2/19/1842 | Milan |
| 2/19/1842 | Navara |
| 2/20–2/23/1842 | Turin |
| 2/24–2/26/1842 | Chambery, France |
| 2/27–3/3/1842 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| 3/4–3/6/1842 | Lausanne |
| 3/7–3/9/1842 | Besancon, France |
| 3/10–3/13/1842 | Dijon |
| 3/16–4/15/1842 | Paris |
| 4/16–4/17/1842 | Normandy |
| 4/18–4/20/1842 | Havre |
| 4/21/1842 | Southampton, England |
| 4/22/1842 | Whinchester |
| 4/23/1842 | Portsmouth |
| 4/24–4/25/1842 | Newport,Yarmouth |
| 4/26–5/5/1842 | London |
| 5/6/1842 | Cambridge |
| 5/7–5/9/1842 | London |
| 5/10–5/17/1842 | Sheffield |
| 5/18/1842 | Liverpool |
| 5/19/1842 | left for Boston, U.S. |
Learn more about Henry Shaw
Check out William B. Faherty's Henry Shaw: His Life & Legacies and learn more about Shaw's life before and after he founded the Missouri Botanical Garden. In this book, Faherty provides the following itinerary for Shaw's travels (1987: 44–49):
| Paris in 1/1/1841 Lyons Marseilles Italy Leghorn Florence Rome Naples Smyrna Constantinople Ionian Isl. Trieste Vencie Vienna Venice Verona Milan Turin Chambery Lansanne Geneva LeHavre Southampton New York in 6/13/1842 |
