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Jessie Anderson Cameron Letters

其他書名	To Her Mother and Sister in Dalkeith, Scotland
出版	1852
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4wF2kgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Eighteen letters, describing Cameron's sea voyage to Calif. via Liverpool, New York, Jamaica, and Panama with brothers Tom and George, and a niece, who is also named Jessie; her first jobs in Sacramento as a cook and a dressmaker; marriage and family life with her husband Duncan Cameron near Volcano, Calif. in Calaveras (and since 1854, Amador) County, where they established a farm called Mount Pleasant; news of her brothers, including George's draying business and Tom's gold mining activities; and later, Duncan's ice-making business. Includes a typed biographical sketch (2 leaves) written by Jessie Cameron's grand-daughter, Barbara Cameron [Blandy?]. A few letters include postscripts by Duncan, and one early letter includes a note from George.