Box 5A
Container
Contains 1 Result:
David Henry Mordecai (1833-59) Diary, 1856-1857
File — Box: 5A, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Record of illnesses and schooling, mostly in Heidelberg, Germany, with some notations at Ems. With sporadic notations of weather, and mentions of South Carolinians Albert Rhett, William, John & Alfred Preston, Charles Boyd, Hammond, Legare, D.C. Seixas & others. References to museums, artwork and plays seen. Mentions of health and cures, the need for an operation (p. 73); stupidity of peasants vs. slaves (18); lynching (21), political situation in Kansas (30); doomed nature of...
Dates:
1856-1857