Letters from Sarah Bulkeley Waterman
(Hartford, Connecticut: Printed by The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.), [circa 1926].
Price: $85.00
Hardcover. First edition. 34pp. Slight foxing on foredge, endapapers and title page, light soiling on boards, very good. In 1854 Waterman sailed for Europe on the *Highflyer* ship under command of her husband Captain Gurdon B. Waterman and sent letters back home to her aunt. Shortly after the last of the these letters were written, on October 24, 1856 the ship sailed from San Francisco bound for Hong Kong and was never heard from again. Printer's card laid in. Uncommon.
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