Letter, 1846 Mar. 28 (Charleston, S.C.), to Leverett Saltonstall (Salem, Massachusetts)

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Dabney, Charles W., b. ca. 1823. Letter, 1846 Mar. 28 (Charleston, S.C.), to Leverett Saltonstall (Salem, Massachusetts)

Letter, 1846 Mar. 28 (Charleston, S.C.), to Leverett Saltonstall (Salem, Massachusetts)

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Letter from Charles W. Dabney, Jr., telling his friend "Lev" of his arrival in Charleston, S.C., following a forty-six-day sea voyage from Fayal [Faial] in the Azores. Dabney had left Fayal on 8 Feb. 1846 bound for Charleston but the ship had not encountered trade winds for many days. The weather was good, and passengers on the ship had passed their time in eating, sleeping, "lolling under the awning in conversation or with our books--and for exercise played at 'Shovel-board'" [shuffle-board]. Dabney was pleased to be "once again in this 'land of Freedom and equality'" and notes his pleasure with Charleston, especially since it was "the city in which dwells the fair Eliza," a young lady upon whom he intended to call before traveling west. He had arrived earlier in the day from Georgetown, S.C., at which port the ship had landed after having veered off course in mistaking the Cape Romain lighthouse for the port of Charleston. The letter mentions two travel companions on the same ship, "Messrs. Haight and Martin--the latter a young English Artist--or, to speak more vulgarly, Portrait Painter," who had been in St. Michael, Barbados, to paint portraits and had then traveled to Fayal. Leverett Saltonstall is identified in the 1850 census as a 25-year-old attorney living in Salem, Mass.

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