Click here for digital copy of original at Maine Memory Network. This memoir is also included, edited, and annotated, in Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume I—Emergence and Fame (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2023).

Summer 2025, a corrected edition of Oakes Smith’s narrative from The Portland Daily Advertiser will be published by Scott Vile of Ascension Press. See our blog, with an advance copy of Scherman’s Foreword to the edition.