Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff
Joseph Wolff
Joseph Wolff’s autobiography in two volumes (London, 1860), dictated and narrated in the third person. It says he long ago gave up fixing dates for unfulfilled prophecy and regrets having named 1847.
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Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D., 2 vols. (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1860). Narrated in the third person; the preface says Wolff dictated it “aloud in a family circle” with verbal revision assisted by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. Internet Archive scans b29351972_0001 and b29351972_0002 (Wellcome Library), page images inspected: vol. I, p. 402, from “Napier made a mistake here.” through “the errors here alluded to.”; vol. II, pp. 128–129, from “He also talked of their friends in England” through “Because I was a great ass.” Line-end hyphenation joined; spaces before semicolons and colons closed; whitespace normalized.
Vol. I, p. 402; vol. II, pp. 128–129