In the autumn of 1858 an English lady and her husband landed at New York during the rejoicings for the Atlantic cable. Her letters home follow them to West Point, Newport, Boston, Niagara and the Maid of the Mist, Toronto, the Thousand Islands, Montreal and Quebec, the White Mountains, Harvard and Yale, and back to New York.
A fresh, detailed portrait of America on the eve of the Civil War, through observant British eyes. Download the free EPUB.