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Title |
Letter from Eliza Breckinridge to her sister, Lucy Breckinridge |
Dates of Creation |
March 24, 1859 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed Williamsburg March 24th 1859 from Eliza Breckinridge to her sister Lucy Breckinridge mentioning she had not received a reply to her last letter, about leaving for Williamsburg, tells of the various families she has visited on this trip including Uncle Wilmer's, Saunder's and Mumford's, about an illness and the quinine she has taken for it, a visit to the insane asylum and some the sights she saw, met a young lady who she thinks would be a good prospective bride for her Uncle John [Gilmer], a visit to a home on the York River where the water is three miles wide, tells of her many "hair fixings" one named "muskmellon" which she plans to give to her sister Lucy, of the upcoming plans for Miss Kate's [current Oakland's teacher] wedding, closing "with love" to a list of her "colored friends" [slaves] at home. |
Year Range from |
1859 |
Creator |
Eliza Breckinridge |
Year Range to |
1859 |
Subjects |
"Maraposa" lady's dress "muskmellon" hair dressing style "The School in the Woods" book Astronomy Beauty Birthdays Books brickbat Children Church Classes colored friends (slaves) Correspondence Dance Dance parties Dancing lessons Dancing School dancing teacher Earth English French (language) Friendship Hospitals killing sheep Knee Lunatic asylums Machines Marriage muselain (dress material) Neuralgia Pain Parties Prayer professor Quinine Religion Rivers Scholars Ships Shopping Singing spring dresses Stone Throats Translators Wedding Wharves |
Search Terms |
Breckinridge family Williamsburg, Virginia Gloucester County, Virginia Biglow (house in Gloucester Co, VA) York County Norfolk Richmond Charlottesville, Virginia |
People |
Amanda, servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Anthony, Julie Betsy, Aunt Breckinridge, Eliza Breckinridge, Emma Jane Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, James Bryan, Georgia Chatilda (Breckinridge slave) Gilmer, John Grinnen, Mr. Joynes, Mr. Kate, Miss ( children's teacher at Oaklands) Lancaster, Mr. Louisa, (Breckinridge slave w/ baby girl b. August 1843) Martine, Mr. [dance master] Mumford, Beverly B. ( Bland ) Mumford, Col. Mumford, Mrs. Page, Anne Rose Page, Mattie Phil, Uncle [slave] Pizini, Mr. (Richmond, VA shop owner) Pompey [little boy] Saunders, Mr.? Saunders, Mrs. Susan, [house slave of Mary Gilmer] Wilmer, Uncle Woodville, Cary Woodville, Emma Woodville, Mary Ann Breckinridge |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
051\196951551.JPG |
Number of images |
6 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.551 |
Extent of Description |
Six pages, size 6 1/2" x 8" |