Through his affiliation with the New York Herald, the young English-born writer Kinahan Cornwallis (1839 1917), was afforded the opportunity to witness the nineteen-year-old Prince of Wales's 1860 highly successful tour of Canada and America more closely than any other individual outside the royal party. He chronicled his observations and depicted the progress of the first visit of a member of the British royal family to the Americas, and the resulting book was quickly published in New York. Cornwallis wrote that his great aim in recounting the travels of His Royal Highness was to provide the...
Through his affiliation with the New York Herald, the young English-born writer Kinahan Cornwallis (1839 1917), was afforded the opportunity to witnes...