Tag: Julia Newell

  • From Janesville to the Holy Land, Letters by Julia Newell

    In other posts we’ve provided links to the letters written to newspapers during the Quaker City voyage by Mark Twain and Moses S. Beach. Another passenger, who wrote 14 letters to her hometown newspaper, the Janesville Gazette, was Julia Newell. Newell does not always identify the excursionists by their real names. For example, she called…