From Janesville to the Holy Land, Letters by Julia Newell

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 used Dr. Hub of Hubsville instead of the actual Dr. James H. Payne from Boston, and Robin Goodfellow instead of Dr. Abraham Reeves Jackson.

Julia-Newell on Quint Books

From Janesville to the Holy Land, Letters by Julia Newell