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 XXXIV. ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: Ten days after the events recorded in the last chapter I sailed once more into Havana. Two days after my capture, by order of the Captain-General of Cuba, I was put on board the little gunboat Santa Rita, a wretched little tub that steamed four miles an hour and took eight days going from Puerto Novo on the south to Havana.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XXXIV. ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL..” 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 XXXIV. ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL.” 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.