Letters Home in 1852
Then....
First, a few words of explanation. This letter, written in 1852 by Gilbert Shattuck to his mother, was found attached to an outside Higgins Beach cottage wall on Ocean Avenue during a renovation project.
Truly, an amazing find! Can you imagine traveling anywhere for 27 days and 10 hours in today's world? Wouldn't you like to know more about how he was traveling....perhaps various Wells Fargo mail stagecoaches on their return trips?? Today we would be standing at an airline counter in New York complaining about a 10 hour flight and expecting some sort of compensation.
Now.....
Not about to happen!
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