Letter from Martha Stone Thompson Read to Lorinda Thompson Sheldon, December, 1852?
written by Martha Stone Thompson Read, 1811-1891 (1852); edited by Kenneth L. Holmes and David C. Duniway; in Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, vol. 5: 1852: The Oregon Trail (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), 261-266
