Letter: to his mother /by George Nye, 1851 Feb 22.

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Letter: to his mother /by George Nye, 1851 Feb 22.

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A warning that California's climate, quite different from most found in the United States, accounts for the large death rate there. George Nye, however, experienced in traveling to many parts of the world, finds the California climate the best he has ever experienced.

4 p.; 25 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Nye, George Henry, 1828-1908

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George H. Nye was born in Hallowell, Maine in 1828 of an old New England family. His early career in cotton manufacturing was interrupted by the Civil War, for which Nye volunteered only one month after its beginning in 1861. Nye spent Thanksgiving of 1861 at Camp Kelsey at Annapolis Junction, not far from where he would later live. During his service Nye, who was first part of the 10th and later the 29th Maine, participated in the Battle of Antietam and in campaigns that took him as far south a...