Echoes from a distant frontier: the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida

Name/Title

Echoes from a distant frontier: the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida

Entry/Object ID

Library.1311

Description

xxxii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Echoes from a distant frontier: the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida by Corinna Brown Aldrich. This is an edited and annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna Elizabeth Brown Aldrich and Ellen Maria Brown Anderson. These 2 single women in their twenties left a comfortable home in New England in 1835 and settled with other family members near Mandarin. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-315) and index. Contents: 1. "Our Pilgrimage Is at an End": South to Mandarin, East Florida, 1830-1835 -- 2. "Our Indian War": 1836-1837 -- 3. "As Noble a Heart As Ever Throbbed": Dr. Edward Aldrich -- 4. "The Ladies of Llangollen": A New Home -- 5. "Log-House, Pine Tree and Cracker": Newnansville, Alachua County -- 6. "Everything Is Hubbub Here": The War Continues -- 7. "What Restless Creatures We Are": Further Peregrinations -- 8. "Going and Coming": Back to St. Augustine -- 9. "I Live on Hope": Pensacola -- 10. "We Are Nearing Our Desired Haven": Key West -- 11. "I See I Am Fiz-z-z-zing Now": Summer and Fall in Key West -- 12. "The Uncertainty of Our Lives": After Key West.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Aldrich, Corinna Brown, 1812-1854 -- Correspondence., Anderson, Ellen Brown, 1814-1862 -- Correspondence., Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida., Women pioneers -- Florida -- Correspondence., Mandarin (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Brown family -- Correspondence.

Publication Details

Author

Aldrich, Corinna Brown 1812-1854, Denham, James M.

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Columbia

Call No.

F 315 .A43 2004

ISBN

1570035369

Notes

Creation Date: 2004 Date Published: 820