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1. 344. Letter(s) to a Miss Watting (from Elisa?) in Bombay, India -- August 14, 1863

344. Letter(s) to a Miss Watting (from Elisa?) in Bombay, India -- August 14, 1863
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Letter(s) to a Miss Watting (from Elisa ?) in Bombay, India, care of James B. Ferguson. In the letter, written over a period of months in cross-hatch, the author describes Bombay in detail, her social life there and her eagerness to hear of news from America and England. The writer also mentions that, while in Gibraltar, she saw the Union gunboat Chippewa keeping watch on the Confederate cruiser Sumter "as a cat with a mouse." 17p.

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