books.google.com - Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Shirley_Letters_from_California_Mine.html?id=lQ6ekLo9SHEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
