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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
March 18, 1845 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed "Leigh March 18th 1845 -- Tuesday morning" from Lucy Gilmer to her to sister Emma at Grove Hill, Fincastle, Botetourt County telling of improvement in her health and looking forward to a visit from Emma in May, described the medications she has been using, of her plans to visit at Grove Hill, stopping to see other friends and family along the way, names a long list of fruits she hopes Emma will have for her, about Mrs. Anthony's son Sam passing away, closing with a request for more and more letters. Mother Mary Gilmer completes this letter with more information on Lucy's medicines, news of Ann Gilmer's illness and treatments, friends visiting Lucy, and a law suit involving the Commonwealth [of Virginia} and others over a claim for $40,000, but does not give much detail on this action and closing with comments on her own health. This letter contains treatments for several illnesses, both drug treatments and physical treatments such as cupped, blistered, and leeched. |
Year Range from |
1845 |
Year Range to |
1845 |
Subjects |
Apples (yellow) Arrowroot (medicine) Baggage Bathing Beef Berries Blisters ( remedy ) blue moss (medicine) butchering Camomile tea Carriage Children Church Claims Commonweath [of Virginia] cornbread tea cupped (medical procedure) Death Horse Illness inflammation of the stomach Jellies Law suit Lawyers leeched (remedy) Letters Pain Peaches Pears Rhubarb shower bath spinal affection Stagecoaches Sulphur water tonics (medical) Tub of water Visiting Watermelons Weather Whooping Cough |
Search Terms |
Botetourt County, Virginia Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle Grove Hill (residence) Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Leigh, residence in Albemarle County, VA Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia Lynchburg Richmond, Virginia |
People |
Anthony, Caroline Anthony, Mrs. Anthony, Sam Blane, Mr. Blane, Mrs. Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Cousin Charles, [Minor] (Doctor treating Lucy Gilmer) Dolley, (Cary Breckinridge slave) Gilmer family Gilmer, Ann Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary Peachy Mildred, Cousin Rives, Mrs. Morris |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
029\196951383.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.383 |
Extent of Description |
Single sheet, size 7 1/2" x 7 3/4" |