This diary was kept by a woman travelling to Charlotte, New York, in 1865 via the Potomac River (Va.), aboard the ship
Little Ada.
She made notes and observations about daily life aboard the ship, the fine accommodations, clothing, children, St. Lawrence River travel, food, and "making fun of the yanks." The woman wrote about the funeral of an indigenous child near Novia Scotia on page three of folio seven. In some entries, the writer used racial epithets.