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Title |
Letter from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her daughter, Mary Breckinridge Woodville, at Glencary in Sweet Springs, Virginia |
Dates of Creation |
September 1853 [by context] 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835 |
Scope & Content |
Undated letter headed "Monday evening" from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her daughter, Mary Breckinridge Woodville, at Glencary. The context makes this letter fit with several others written in September 1853. Her mother tells of plans to send various items by a carriage soon, of plans to make a screen from calico cotton and wood, of having Anderson [slave] make a new couch and "cover it with the curtain you think so ugly", suggesting Dr. Woodville continue to gather oak and walnut for flooring planks in their new house, currently in possession of Mr. Hull, that the Doctor not sell his wheat for any less then $1.00 per bushel, and he will make more that way than by delivering the flour [ground from the wheat] to Buchanan [for transporting by the canal to Richmond], mentions several visitors including family members, about Cary, Jr.'s school closing down during October for a vacation after the first three months of study, tells of Mahala (slave) who has another brother, asks if Viola can make 10 pounds of butter per week to sell, and closes with several other items she wishes to send when the wagon next goes over the mountain. |
Year Range from |
1853 |
Year Range to |
1853 |
Subjects |
"Studying Like a Horse" Adhesive plaster (bandage) Athletics Bad weather Bathing Beets Bible stories Borders Buggies Cabbage Calico Carriage Church Colander Cotton Couches Curtains Dress Episcopal church Episcopal minister Flooring Flour Garrets House construction Hymns Illness Locks (Hardware) Oaks Planks Porches Rag rugs School Screens Session Singing Skimmer Spring Trunks Vacation Wagon Walnut wood Water ram (device for pumping water) Wheat Wheat prices Wheat sales Window Wood |
Search Terms |
"Bleak House" publication Breckinridge family Carper's [store in Fincastle] Glencary, residence near Sweet Springs Lexington Ridgeway (residence) |
People |
Anderson, slave of Cary Breckinridge Baker, Mr. Benners, Miss (teacher) Betsey (slave) Bowyer, Edmund Bowyer, James Bowyer, Wood Breckinridge, Cary Breckinridge, Cary, Jr. Breckinridge, Eliza Breckinridge, Eliza Breckinridge, Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, Emma Jane Breckinridge, Gilmer Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, John Burwell, Lucy Burwell, Patsy Campbell, (Unknown) Campbell, Mrs. Davis, Mr. (unknown) Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Haycock, Mr. Hull, Mr. Mahala, slave of Mary B. Woodville Maria (slave of Cary Breckinridge) Penn, Mr. Phil, Uncle [slave of Mary Gilmer Utz, Mrs. Viola, slave of Mary Beckinridge Woodville Wilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer Wilmer, Mr. Wilmer, Mrs. Wilson, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Woodville, Dr. Woodville, Mary Ann Breckinridge |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
045\196951472.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.472 |
Extent of Description |
Two pages, size 7 3/4" x 12 3/4", and two pages, size 7 3/4" x 9" |