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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
ADELBERT	DESCRIBES
RAILROAD TRAVEL TRAVEL FROM NEW ORLEANS TO SHIELDSBOROUGH
AND ACTIVITIES AT BAY OF ST. LOUIS August ? 1873
(Letters from H.S. Gen. Adelbert Ames to his vife Blanche Butler Ames spending the summer at Massachusetts' Bay near Lovell and Boston.
August 11, 1873* ? from Shieldsborough, Kiss.
I came out here yesterday from Nev Orleans.
Riding out on the cars yesterday afternoon I vatched for alligators in the vater in the excavations by the track. I saw half a dozen or so.
Just before reaching this station we passed Montgomery Station and saw the ground on which Cooley and Rhett fought a duel a month ago, in which Cooley was killed.
Everybody lives on oysters and fish here. Such, at least, has been my diet last night at supper and this morning at breakfast.
There is to be a regatta today. The place is crowded.
I occupied one of five beds in the same room last night. I have protested this morning, and will get one by myself today.
I send to my beautiful wife love, which she will share with our babies (son Butler and daughter Edith).
August 12, 1873 ? from Shieldsborough, Miss, to Bay View, Mass.
Yesterday we had a boat race here, which proved quite interesting. Ve took our stand on board a Revenue Cutter which was lying at one of the piers.
Rain Squalls
Jvist as the boats vere to start a rain squall came up. The start was delayed, but two boats at different times tried to move about (under sail) and were capsized, but no one was drowned.
Finally the boats which had met vith no accident started.
The contest was between a Nev York built boat and a fleet of boats built here. The N. Y. boat took the lead and kept it for four or five miles, when she capsized in a squall?nobody hurt.
The race vas finally won by a boat built at this place.