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Title |
Letter from Anna Maria (Saunders) Preston at Wyndhurst, Albermarle County, Virginia, to Her Mother, Alice (Watts) Saunders at Flat Creek, in Campbell County, Virginia, Expressing Concern for Her Health, Describing the Problems of Building Their New House at Wyndhurst, Telling of Refashioning a Dress, Giving Accounts of Numerous Friends, Especially a Cousin John M. Preston Recovering from a Wound, and Discussing Plans for Christmas |
Dates of Creation |
Late Fall 1863 |
Scope & Content |
Letter from Anna Maria (Saunders) Preston at Wyndhurst, Albermarle County, Virginia, to her mother, Alice (Watts) Saunders, expressing her concern for her health and saying that she also suffers from neuralgia brought on by exposure; describing the problems of building their new house at Wyndhurst because of the expense and shortage of timber; telling of refashioning a muslin dress by soaking it in borax; thanking her mother for sending soap and apples and offering beef; saying that her husband, Thomas Lewis Preston, will take hogs to Roanoke to be slaughtered; giving accounts of numerous friends, most of them kin to her husband, Constance who is soon leaving, Preston Hampton, Sallie Hampton, Sarah Buchanan (Preston) Floyd, Eliza Henry (Preston) Carrington, Mary Jane Davis, Walter Eugene Preston, and Jane Carter; telling at length about a cousin John Montgomery Preston recovering from a wound, staying with the Carringtons, tended by Lizzie Cummings; saying that Mary Jane Davis (her brother's mother-in-law) is moving and has left some furniture for her; reporting that her horse has been hurt; telling of a visit from her niece Alice Fleming Saunders; and discussing plans for Christmas. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document. |
Year Range from |
1863 |
Creator |
Preston, Anna Maria (Saunders) |
Year Range to |
1863 |
Subjects |
Apples Auctions Bedding Bedsteads Beef Borax Building Chairs Children Christmas Church Cold (illness) Company Convalescence Conversation Correspondence Cotton Dresses Economy Erysipelas Family Food Furniture Health Hogs Horses Household Housekeeping Illness Ironing Kitchen Laundry Letter Lumber Maids Mattresses Muslin Neuralgia Pickled beef Press (wardrobe) Relatives Servants Sewing Sickness Sideboards Soap Social life Spinning Stockings Table Toilet stand Transportation Travel Visitors Washing dishes Wounds Yarn |
Search Terms |
Abingdon, Virginia Flat Creek (residence), Campbell County, Virginia Roanoke County, Virginia Wyndhurst (residence), Albermarle County, Virginia |
People |
Carrington, [Eliza Henry (Preston)] Carter, Jane Cummings, Lizzie Davis, [Mary Jane] Floyd, Sarah Buchanan Preston Hampton, Sally [Preston] Hampton, [Thomas] Preston Johnson, Col [unknown] Preston, Anna Maria (Saunders) Preston, John M. [Montgomery] Preston, Thomas Lewis Preston, Walter [Eugene] Saunders, Alice (Watts) Saunders, Alice [Fleming] [Saunders], Cary [Caryetta (Davis)] [Saunders], Robert [Chandler] [unknown], Constance [unknown], Jenny [unknown], Jilla [unknown], Judy [unknown], Pamela |
Collection |
Flat Creek Collection |
Imagefile |
045\201049099-4.JPG |
Number of images |
8 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
2010.49.099 |
Extent of Description |
Two sheets folded, embossed paper, text side 1-4, folded for mailing in an envelope, size 6 3/8" x 7 3/4" |