Nearly all the letters, written from Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, The letters are to her mother in New England. They reveal much about middle-class Southern life and detail how Fox quickly adopted the customs, prejudices, and politics of the South. The pre-Civil War letters are on pp. Edited by Larry Ceplar. Columbia University Press, 1989.
Some letters are to the sisters from others.
Like Tocqueville's Democracy in America, this book points up the egalitarian character of America society. E 165 .G91 Hart, Katherine, and Elizabeth Kemp, eds. Encino Press, 1974. Pease was a candidate for governor of Texas in 1851 and was elected to that office in 1853 and 1855. Much of the material is personal.