CalGideon Lee Knapp, Extracts from Letters and Journals of Gideon Lee Knapp

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Gideon Lee Knapp (d. 1875) married Augusta Murray Spring in 1842 in New York City. In January 1849, Knapp sailed for California, while his wife remained behind with their children. Knapp returned east in October and made New York his home for the rest of his life. This data set contains Gideon Knapp's shipboard letters from his voyage round the Horn to California, but most of the pages are filled with letters to and from his wife and children, and his wife's journal entries during his absence in 1849, and later by family letters and journal entries through 1874.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 178. [database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. Knapp, Gideon Lee. Gideon Lee Knapp and Augusta Murray Spring, his Wife: Extracts from Letter and Journal, Edited by one of their Grandsons. Priv. print., 1909.

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