1832 Letter from a Connecticut Mother Concerning the Loss of Her Teenaged Son in a Shipwreck.
Stonington, Connecticut: April 1832. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. A letter from Ann Brown Phelps (1785–1833) in Stonington, Connecticut to her sister-in-law and niece in Auburn. Phelps writes: “A mind enervated with grief & affliction for the loss of a dear and promising Son I can.....