12 this day five years ago our
dear Brother was lost at sea
How many troubles he has
escaped! Mat & Sister
Ann dined with us and
we spoke of him. I showed
them the daguerreotype view of
the Herndon Monument sent me
by Mit.
William Lewis Herndon, 1813-1857, a noted explorer went down with his ship in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras September 12, 1857. His daughter married future President Chester Arthur. Arthur, an officer in the Union Army, paid a courtesy call on the family when the Union Army occupied Fredericksburg as recorded in Dr. Herndon's diary entry for June 4.
MSS 2563-b
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