In 1859 the Finnish-Swedish aristocrat and naval officer, Hampus Furuhjelm arrived in Alaska as one of the Russian colony's last ambassadors. He brought with him his young wife Anna Furuhjelm, who wrote many long letters in English to her mother. These letters, for the first time, give us a vivid picture of everyday life in the colonial capital, Sitka, in the period shortly before the USA. took over Alaska. The letters have been edited and commented by Anna Furuhjelm's great-granddaughter, Anni Christensen.

"The lives of five vice-regal women who accompanied their husbands to the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century are examined in Governors' wives in colonial Australia: Eliza Darling, New South Wales, 1825-1831; Jane Franklin, Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1843; Mary Anne Broome, Western Australia, 1883-1889; Elizabeth Loch, Victoria, 1884-1889; Audrey Tennyson, South Australia, 1899-1903"--Page 2

Since childhood, Mary Catherine "Hallie" Stiles, daughter of a US marshal, has been a difficult girl to tame. She is headstrong and has her preferred way of doing things, which, more than occasionally, appears unconventional to public scrutiny. However, her affluent heritage establishes for her a future in the world of politics and high society. Jody Simpson is orphaned at early age and is left to take care of her younger sister, whose untimely passing leaves Jody without family and determines h

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reproduction of the original.