Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter XXXI. THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: I was very fortunate in my servant Nunn, he being devoted to me, a resolute fellow as well, and thoroughly trustworthy. He felt very badly over my leaving him behind in Havana.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XXXI. THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON..” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter XXXI. THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON.” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.