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Title Echoes from a distant frontier : the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida / edited by James M. Denham and Keith L. Huneycutt.
Publication Info. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2004.
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Description xxxii, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Women's diaries and letters of the South
Note Correspondence of Corinna Elizabeth Brown Aldrich and Ellen Maria Brown Anderson.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-315) and index.
Contents 1. "Our Pilgrimage Is at an End": South to Mandarin, East Florida, 1830-1835 -- 2. "Our Indian War": 1836-1837 -- 3. "As Noble a Heart As Ever Throbbed": Dr. Edward Aldrich -- 4. "The Ladies of Llangollen": A New Home -- 5. "Log-House, Pine Tree and Cracker": Newnansville, Alachua County -- 6. "Everything Is Hubbub Here": The War Continues -- 7. "What Restless Creatures We Are": Further Peregrinations -- 8. "Going and Coming": Back to St. Augustine -- 9. "I Live on Hope": Pensacola -- 10. "We Are Nearing Our Desired Haven": Key West -- 11. "I See I Am Fiz-z-z-zing Now": Summer and Fall in Key West -- 12. "The Uncertainty of Our Lives": After Key West.
Subject Aldrich, Corinna Brown, 1812-1854 -- Correspondence.
Anderson, Ellen Brown, 1814-1862 -- Correspondence.
Women pioneers -- Florida -- Correspondence.
Sisters -- Florida -- Correspondence.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida.
Florida -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Florida -- Biography.
Brown family -- Correspondence.
Added Author Aldrich, Corinna Brown, 1812-1854.
Anderson, Ellen Brown, 1814-1862.
Denham, James M.
Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956-
ISBN 1570035369 (cloth : alk. paper) : $39.95
9781570035364 (cloth : alk. paper)