Laura M. Towne diary, 8 April 1862-26 July 1863

CLAYTON'S Octavo DIARY

M. F. Jenks

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From a Boston paper o Feb. 1862

TEACHERS FOR PORT ROYAL. The [following] are the names of the Boston teachers who embarked at New York for Port Royal on the steamer Atlantic E. W. Hooper, Wm. C. Gannett, J. E. Zachos, Jas. F. Sisson,, J.W. R. Hill, D. F. Thorpe, T. Edwin Ruggles, F. E. Barnard, Richard Soule, Jr., Dr. Chas. H. Brown, Jas. E. Tay lor, Daniel Bowe, Samuel D. Phillips, Geo. M. Wells, Miss Mena Hale, Miss M. A. Waldeck, E. S. Philbrick, Geo. H. Blake, Dr. A. J. Wakefield, Issac W. Cole, Jas. H. Palmer, David Mack, J.M. F. Howard, Dr. Jas. Waldock, Leonard Wesson, Wm.E. Peck, Frederick A. Eustis, Wm. S. Clark, Jules L. De Croix, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Hale, Miss Ellen H. Winsor.

Laura Towne "The Oaks" St. Helena Is. S.C

St. Helenaville "Clarence Fripps"

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MONDAY, Tuesday Apr. 8 1862

On board the Oriental The Stewardess is a character. She is a very light mulatto tall thin, very talkative & frank in the expressions of her face. She says that passengers get frightened at very slight rolling, and ask the officers of the boat whether there is danger, "and you can't get them to give a straight answer to such questions - taint the nature of them. They goes in for excitement so they tell the ladies that its the worst time they ever knowed, don't know whether the boat will live through the night, or not, and then the ladies is scared" Miss Ware & Mrs. Philbrik & I sat most of the time around the stove & expecting every moment to be off, & questioning the boathands, The pilot refuses to take us out in this snowstorm, German soldiers aboard.