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Letters from South Carolina, New Orleans and Washington 1851-1852.

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Letters.
Science.
Inland navigation.
Music.
Language and languages.
Race.
Education.
Work.
Louisiana.
Alabama.
South Carolina.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
1851
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Letters written while accompanying her husband, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), on a lecture tour of the South, with discussions of Dickens, Thackeray and literature in general, as well as of Southern society and hospitality and a perilous stagecoach journey in the wet.
Notes:
AMDigital Reference:A-3, Box 2 folder 10.
Loose letters, 13 items, includes typed transcripts.

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