Correspondence from Travel to South America, 1858

These three letters were written by William F. Nisbet to his mother and sister during his travels to South America in 1858. He wrote from Rio Janerio, Rio Grande d’ Sul, and Buenos Ayres. In his letter from Rio Janeiro on July 21, 1858 Nisbet recalled the story of an altercation between rebellious “negroes” and police who were “mostly mulattoes ad blacks and lack the manly determination and bearing of the white man they are unskillful in command on such emergencies.”