America 1860: a young Englishman's diaryHe was just twenty four years old when Englishman & entomologist Richard Harper Stretch stepped on to the boat at Liverpool and set sail for America on the 14th January 1860. He was going, he wrote, to 'investigate the manners and the institutions of our American Bretheren. With him he carried his considerable luggage, a trusty shot gun, specimen jars and many preconceptions. Always to hand was a new, hard backed book in which to write about the