Echoes from a distant frontier: the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida
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Library.1311
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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.
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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.
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Aldrich, Corinna Brown 1812-1854, Denham, James M.