“New Bedford, Nov. 5, 1863. Susan I. Lesley To Her Husband.

. . . After tea Lizzie [Ware] took out her case of Port Royal letters, and read to us, till far into the night, Harriet’s and Charley’s Journal of the last year. What a contrast to your London letters, this life among the Freedmen at St. Helena and Coffin’s Point, and how interesting both! . . .”

Reference Data:

Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley, Vol. 1, by Mary Lesley Ames, 1909, page 477