Eaton Family correspondence, 1853-1855.

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Eaton Family correspondence, 1853-1855.

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This group of fifteen letters is made up largely of correspondence between Amos Beebe Eaton (1806-1877) and his wife and son, Elizabeth Selden Eaton and Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895). Amos Beebe Eaton is in Northern California during this time, and his son Daniel is a student at Yale collecting botanical samples. The letters document the family's sentiments about their separation but also describe a student's life in New Haven, CT, and a soldier's life in Northern California during the mid-nineteenth century. There is also one letter to Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895) from an uncle of the same name, a brother of Amos Beebe Eaton.

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