Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The autobiography of David Augustus Neal, of Salem, in a real sense epitomizes New England's business experience from the 1790's to the Civil War. Not that it is concerned with business only. It is rich in family history, in its picture of education and life in Salem, in travel observations, and in adventure, but it is singularly informative on business.
page 33 note 1 The original autobiography is owned by persons in Salem, and copies are in possession of the author, the Essex Institute, and Baker Library, Harvard University.
page 38 note 1 A copy of this pamphlet is in the Essex Institute.