Samuel Wilson Journal

Résumé du livre

An annotated copy of "Miller's Planters & Merchants' Almanac for the year 1854" is interleaved with pages containing journal entries and newspaper clippings. Handwritten journal entries include meteorological observations and weekly reports of yellow fever deaths in Charleston (S.C.), and briefly note a few family matters, the death of Wilson's niece Mrs. Mary Brailsford in Summerville (S.C.), stays in Aiken (S.C.), as well as a fire, hurricane, and other events in Charleston. Newspaper clippings mainly concern yellow fever deaths and include mortality tables listing causes of death in Charleston in September and October of 1854.