Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Poland: Letter from Christopher Hughes to the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, an Offering to the Pennsylvania Academy of t

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Excerpt from Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Poland: Letter From Christopher Hughes to the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, an Offering to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts My Dear Ingersoll, You have been to me - a "guide, philosopher and friend" from our Princeton College days, your very name has been a blessing to me! you will see. in the simple and touching Letter of my Daughter - narrating the circumstances of the awful accident to the American Packet Ship, "The Poland, " Captain Anthony, on her voyage from New York to Havre, in May, 1840, when the ship was struck by Lightning - that - under Providence - I owe the preservation of my Daughter, to an "excellent, good-hearted man - named Ingersoll - Captain of the Ship Clifton." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.