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Re: More on Thomas Hubbard Sumner
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 20:22 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 20:22 -0500
On Feb 9, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > I, also, would recommend reading Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast". > It's available online (see the Links section on my web site). It's a > great story, and it will give you a Harvard man's view of life at sea > at mid-century. My recollection is that Dana went to Yale, not Harvard, but, as my teenage daughter might say, "whatever!"