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New Trials
In New York City, Isabella watches her son Peter slide into trouble until she lets him face the law unaided; redeemed by a barber whose name he had borrowed, he ships out on a Nantucket whaler, and his three surviving letters home are the last she ever hears of him.
Peter's troubles in New York CityPeter Williams the barber's interventionPeter's whaling letters, 1840-41