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title	:	Sisters of Fortune : Being the True Story of How Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brotherwhile Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush
author	:	Heffernan, Nancy Coffey.; Stecker, Ann Page
publisher	:	University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin	:	087451651X
print isbn13	:	9780874516517
ebook isbn13	:	9780585256986
language	:	English
subject	Keene (N.H.)--Biography, Wilson family--Correspondence, Wilson, James,--1797-1881--Correspondence, Women--New Hampshire--Keene--History--19th century.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	F44.K2H44 1993eb
ddc	:	974.2/9
subject	:	Keene (N.H.)--Biography, Wilson family--Correspondence, Wilson, James,--1797-1881--Correspondence, Women--New Hampshire--Keene--History--19th century.

Page iii Sisters of Fortune Being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush. Nancy Coffey Heffernan & Ann Page Stecker

Page iv University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1993 by University Press of New England All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 CIP data appear at the end of the book

Page v In Memory of Lizzie, Annie, and Charlotte Wilson

Page vii CONTENTS Introduction: "The Feeling Passes the Letter Remains" ix Part One "An Eccentric and Curious Thing" (18471851) "Dear and Sacred Charges" 3 "God Bless You My Dear and Only Parent" 28 Love and Money 49 "A Splendid Wedding" 84 Part Two "Being United, We Three Girls" (18531855) Having a Roof of Their Own 109 "Real Ladies Society" 133 "Despite Our Doleful Letters" 156 "Times, Prices, and Everything Has Changed, Since You Went Away" 174

Page viii Part Three "Where Is Father?" (18551864) "Annie Has Done the Best Thing" 197 "A Home Is a Peculiarly Desirable Institution" 231 "Sir, It Is All Yours" 253 Epilogue 275 Sources and Acknowledgments 277 Index 281 Illustrations follow page 194

Page ix INTRODUCTION: "THE FEELING PASSES THE LETTER REMAINS" In 1858, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood wrote to her father to apologize for a fit of pique "The feeling passes the letter remains." Diaries, account books, inventories of household goods, wills, and lettersprivate artifacts that remain long after their immediate significance or usefulness has passedare revolutionizing historians' understanding of those fleeting feelings and activities that inform the texture of daily life. Social historians interested in family life and particularly in the experience of women, children, workers, racial and ethnic minorities, and other classes excluded from the more traditional concerns of political and economic historians now rely on these valuable new sources to flesh out information gathered from public records. Consider the family of James Wilson, Jr., of Keene, New Hampshire. Wilson's public life sounds a note, if minor, in the political history of the nineteenth century. Political historians might include him in a footnote to a history of the Whig party in New Hampshire. He appears in records and histories of the U.S. Congress of 18481850. He was occasionally the subject of fiery denunciations in the public press. There is a handsome portrait of him in the Cheshire County Historical Society. His oldest daughter, Lizzie, would appear in accounts of nineteenth-century society and etiquette books, for instance, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York 1888): Sherwood, Mary E., author, b. in Keene, N.H. about 1830. She is the daughter of James Wilson, member of Congress from New Hampshire, and married to John Sherwood, a lawyer of New York city [sic]. She is well known as a society leader, and has devoted special attention to the advancement of literary and artistic pursuits. One of her sons married, in 1887, Rosina Emmet, the artist. Mrs. Sherwood has given in New York city and elsewhere, for several seasons, readings that have been exceedingly successful, has written for various periodicals, and is author of

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