Letters from South Carolina, New Orleans and Washington
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- Title
- Letters from South Carolina, New Orleans and Washington
- Date
- 1851-1852
- Traveller
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- Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary
- Reference
- A-3, Box 2 folder 10
- Region
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- North America
- Country
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- United States
- Places
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- Charleston
- South Carolina
- West Point
- Alabama
- Mobile
- New Orleans
- Louisiana
- Sullivan's Island
- Washington DC
- Description
- 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.
- Library / Archive
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