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Author Moseley, Julia Daniels, 1849-1917.

Title Come to my sunland : letters of Julia Daniels Moseley from the Florida frontier, 1882-1886 / edited by Julia Winifred Moseley and Betty Powers Crislip
Published Gainesville : University of Florida Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : illustrations
Series Florida history and culture series
Florida history and culture series.
Summary "Like so many midwesterners since, Julia Daniels and Charles Scott Moseley moved to Florida in the 1880s seeking a warmer climate. This collection of Julia's letters - mainly to her husband, who made frequent business trips north, and to her close friend Eliza Slade - reveals the struggle of a cultured, urban woman adjusting to the hardship and isolation of life in pioneer Florida." "Julia (herself a published writer) selected these unedited letters and copied them for her family into a thick leather book. Like characters in a novel, the friends and relatives she describes crackle with personality: a flamboyant Russian proclaims his version of communism, a New England spinster counters with Utopian visions, and a university professor retreats from the ivory tower to agricultural experimentation. Readers observe Julia's flair for making daily life cheerful and they meet the couple's two adored sons and Scott's children by an earlier marriage, as well as Cracker settlers, cattle runners, and assorted seekers of health or wealth."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Moseley, Julia Daniels, 1849-1917 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Moseley, Julia Daniels, 1849-1917 fast
Subject Women pioneers -- Florida -- Limona -- Correspondence
Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Limona
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Frontier and pioneer life
Women pioneers
SUBJECT Limona (Fla.) -- Biography
Subject Florida -- Limona
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal correspondence
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Moseley, Julia Winifred
Crislip, Betty Powers
LC no. 98017500
ISBN 0813023599
9780813023595
9780813016054
0813016053