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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
November 25, 1844 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed "Catawba, November 25, 1844" from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her sister Lucy Gilmer at Leigh, near Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle, Virginia, responding to her last letter and giving a lot of news about family and friends, tells of plans to move from Catawba to Grove Hill and inviting all the family to gather there for Christmas, today is her wedding anniversary, new plans for their driveway at Grove Hill, of a little girl who has lost parts of her fingers in a accident involving an ax, of dresses for the children, plans to have her mother move to grove Hill and live with Emma, and missing little Gilmer who has gone to Albemarle to stay with his grandmother for a while. |
Year Range from |
1844 |
Year Range to |
1844 |
Subjects |
Accidents Amputation Anniversary, Wedding Axes Bonnets Bracelets Calico Calico dresses Christmas Clothes Clothing Cold (illness) Cold weather Cows Cries Cut Fingers Flowers Frocks Interest (Financial) Kitchen Letters Money Moving, Household muslin Preaching Pumpkins Roads School Servants Shawls Shrubs Spring suck tittie Teachers Tree Windows Yards |
Search Terms |
Albemarle County, Virginia Boston, Massachusetts Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle, Virginia Grove Hill (residence) Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Leigh, residence in Albemarle Co, VA Lynchburg New Orleans New York City Oaklands (residence), Roanoke County, Virginia Roanoke |
People |
Anthony, Mrs. B, Mr. [Breckinridge] Breckinridge, Cary Breckinridge, Elizabeth Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, Gilmer Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, John Breckinridge, Lucy ? Breckinridge, Mary Duke, Mr. Gamble, Mr. Gilmer family Gilmer, George Henry Gilmer, Isabella (wife of Harmer) Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer, William Wirt Pendleton, Mr. Peyton, Mr. ? Wilmer, Mr. |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
026\196951369.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.369 |
Extent of Description |
Four pages, size 8" x 10" |