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Laura G. Case Collins
1826–1912
A Kentucky writer with a lively eye for people and places, she is best known for travel letters that turned late-19th-century journeys through Europe into warm, observant reading. Her surviving work offers a personal glimpse of travel, conversation, and everyday life in another era.
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By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel
by Laura G. Case Collins
About the author
Born in Maysville, Kentucky, on May 6, 1826, Laura G. Case was the daughter of Reuben Case and Narcissa Martin. She attended a women's school in Georgetown, Kentucky, and married John A. Collins on March 11, 1847.
She published poetry and travel writing, and is chiefly remembered for By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel, issued in 1899. The book gathers her travel letters and reflects an attentive, personable style shaped by her experiences abroad.
Archival records also preserve letters she wrote around the turn of the twentieth century from Maysville, touching on daily life, celebrations, horses, and correspondence. She died on December 11, 1912.