Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, Kept During a Tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64 - With Notes From the Diary of Her Husband; Together With His Memoir #244494

Having been absent during the summer of 1863 for the purpose of improving impaired health of myself, when, on returning from the Catskill Mountains, instead of being benefited, fever, cough, and lassitude took hold of the system to that extent that we believed nothing short of going to a warmer climate, before the commencement of winter, would prove availing.