2Many of those who went to Brazil during the late sixties acknowledged
the influence of Kidder's book. Eliza Kerr Shippey, who wrote "When
Americans were Emigrants," an article which appeared in a Kansas City
paper, June 16, 1912, is a conspicuous example. A copy of the article
was furnished the writer by D. R. Keyes, another emigrant now living
at Clearwater, Florida.
