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[STEAMSHIPS]. Passenger Register for the Steamer Victoria, Gentlemen’s Cabin [and] Ladies’ Cabin with Manuscript Entries from Napoleon, AR, to Little Rock, AR. [Arkansas, 1840]. Two large 4to pages on one large folio sheet (versos blank). Size of unfolded sheet approximately 391 x 496 mm. With small woodcut vignette at top of left page. Printed pages with manuscript entries of names, embarkations, destinations, and remarks in an unknown hand. Toned, some edgewear, soiling, small binding holes at central vertical crease, several tape repairs to verso, some offsetting to leaves. Some of the names listed include: J. E. Graham, H. Spencer, John Walker, Mrs. Campbell, Miss Spencer, Mrs. White, and more. The town of Napoleon, AR, was the subject of an entire chapter of Mark Twain’s book, Life on the Mississippi (1883), in which $10,000 was hidden in a building that Twain knew about, but when he went to retrieve the money, he discovered that the entire town had been destroyed and abandoned (the town was abandoned in 1874 after it had been pillaged and flooded in the Civil War, and was unable to recover economically).