Thomas Waters Jr. Sketch of Barque Fawn (1840)
Thomas wrote this letter to his mother and father, Thomas Sr & Elizabeth Waters, shortly after he became a teenaged apprentice on the whaling ship Barque Fawn. You can faintly…
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Waters & Letter (Undated)
Lizzie Waters (left) seems to be very mature for a nine-year-old girl. A portion of her letter to her Uncle Ben (right) shows beautiful handwriting and perfect grammar, including two…
Letter to John Dickey from W. Archibald (March 18, 1892)
This interesting letter from William Archibald to "Mr. John Dickey" in Rhode Island, dated Mar 3, 1892, was recently shared with me by my cousin Nancy Porter, daughter of Amaret…