Mary S.D. Smith letters : ALS, 1853-1854.

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Mary S.D. Smith letters : ALS, 1853-1854.

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Letters to family members from a twenty-year-old woman from Mass. during her voyage to San Francisco via Cape Horn aboard the ship Water Witch. Smith describes her daily life aboard the ship; her three-month stay in Brazil, where the ship awaited repairs; and her subsequent life in San Francisco, where she joined her husband, Edwin Smith, who ran a business there.

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