1844 - Letter home from a man who traveled from New Hampshire to Alabama to retrieve the personal effects of his brother-in-law
by Horace Brooks
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- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
In this letter Horace reports that he had located the boarding house where Dolly's husband had stayed and found his trunk, paperwork related to cash and bank accounts, and some clothes "them negroes wore out." More interestingly, he describes his voyage to Mobile and steamboat trip up the Tombigbee River.
"After experiencing all the vicissitudes of a land & sea voyage I have at last got to my journey's end in good health. It was midnight when the signal gun was fired to break the slumber of the inhabitants of Gainesville. It is refreshing after having been on the water ever since the 9th of Nov. to lay down on something like a bed. I have no wish to be a child of nepture, I have got to be too old to be rocked to sleep like a child. . .. To me there was not veriety enough [on the trip, although] we had the promis of something grand when we first sailed. . .. We run affawl of a schooner & [it] carried away our jib boom, it created some excitement but our voyage up the river was sick with veriety at every turn we found something to amuse us and . . . our boat seemed to be unmanageable at times and we several times came near having broaken to pieces she would be running into the woods at a angry plenty of ducks, crains, & other water fowle but little of the country is to be seen [as] the banks are mostly covered with timber. . .. I wish Luke had come out with me. The sea voyage & our Chinese cook would have cured him. . .."
Horace also reported that he had obtained a job at a mill, so perhaps he was planning to wait for nicer weather before making the return trip to New Hampshire.
. (For more information, see Doster and Weaver's Historic Settlement in the Upper Tombigbee Valley and "Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway" at Steamboats.org.) .Reviews
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- Bookseller
- Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010266
- Title
- 1844 - Letter home from a man who traveled from New Hampshire to Alabama to retrieve the personal effects of his brother-in-law
- Author
- Horace Brooks
- Format/Binding
- Envelope or Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Gainesville, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1844
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- Philately;
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Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
About Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
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