1. Written at the back of the title page of Maria Graham’s autographed personal copy of her Journal of a Voyage to Brazil and Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 (1824), from a typescript provided by the Oliveira Lima Library at the Catholic University of America. Punctuation of the original has been updated.

2. The memoir that gives an account of her childhood and youth.

3. The original titles are much longer, as was the custom at the time they were published, but the shortened version gives an exact idea of the subject matter. The author herself called them ‘my Chile’ and ‘my Brazil’.