By Dixie Norwood
Collection Overview
Title: Julia Alice Brady Journal (Brady Collection), 1851-1852
Creator: Julia Alice Brady Journal (Brady Collection), 1851-1852
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Collection arranged into one box.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
(Taken from the foreword of the journal) This journal chronicles a year in the life of Julia Alice Brady, a sixteen-year-old from the northeast (near Philadelphia) and her year-long travels around the Eastern United States. The pages of this journal help tell the story of Julia and her unwavering spirit during a critical point in her life-the diagnosis of tuberculosis that was ravaging the population at the time.
Biographical Note
The journal was transcribed and retyped on a typewriter by June Middleton (Mrs. Hamilton Castner Albaugh, Jr.) in March 1987.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1

- Sub-Series 1: Journal of Julia Alice Brady

- Item 1: Explaining

- Item 2: Foreword

- Item 3: Searching for Identities

- Item 1: On Niagara Trip

- Item 2: In Louisville

- Item 3: In Alabama

- Item 4: In Memphis

- Item 5: In New Orleans

- Item 4: The Niagara Trip

- Item 5: In Louisville

- Item 6: The Boat Trip from Louisville to Tuscumbia

- Item 7: The Alabama Visit

- Item 8: The Stagecoach Ride from Tuscumbia to Memphis and the Memphis Visit

- Item 9: The Boat Trip to New Orleans and the New Orleans Stay

- Item 10: The Boat Trip from New Orleans to Memphis

- Item 11: The Second Memphis Visit

- Item 12: The Boat Trip from Memphis to Louisville

- Item 13: In Louisville Again

- Item 14: Epilogue and Credits
