In 1836, Thomas Monck Mason wrote an Account of the Late æronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg which detailed the journey.

[2] Mason republished the book in an extended form in 1838 when it was titles, Aeronautica; Or, Sketches Illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation: Comprising an Enlarged Account of the Late Aerial Expedition to Germany.

Mason notes that the precise location where they landed was by a mil called Dillhausen in the valley of Elbern, two leagues from Weilburg.

[3] Besides the painting and the book, the humorous poet Thomas Hood also wrote a comic poem to celebrate the epic journey to Nassau.

[citation needed] Mason's book on the balloon trip was the model for a famous hoax told by Edgar Allan Poe.

[7][8] Monck Mason (1838) Aeronautica; or, sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of aerostation - digital facsimile from Linda Hall Library