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Title |
Letter from William Gilmer to James Breckinridge |
Dates of Creation |
September 9, 1849 |
Scope & Content |
This letter headed "Ivy Creek, Sept 9th 49" from William Gilmer to his nephew, James Breckinridge, Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, complimenting James on the nice letter he wrote, encouraging him to study and work hard so he could come to the University of Virginia and live in the new house he is constructing with several spare bedrooms, wants to visit Grove Hill in the fall to take the nephews hunting, gives news of his farm harvest and plans to plant wheat for next year. In a note to his sister Emma, William describes his new house (costing about $700) and is asking if his mother can give up her servant Delilah to him as he want to sell his servant Amanda and her child as "she frets me too much and is a most enormous rouge". |
Year Range from |
1898 |
Year Range to |
1898 |
Subjects |
"kill a bird on the wing" Baby Books Bricks Cattle Cellars Chamber (bedroom) Closets College Color scheme Colors Corn Corn crop Court Dictionaries Dining rooms Dogs Foxes Garrets Harvests House Letters Locked room Money Negroes Nogged Parlors Peruvian guano Planting Plowing Porches Rat proof School Sewing Spelling Wheat Wheat crop |
Search Terms |
Botetourt County, Virginia Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckiinridge) Fincastle Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Ivy Creek Maryland Pennsylvania Tazewell, Virginia The University [of Virginia] University of Virginia Virginia |
People |
Amanda, servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, George ( William ) Breckinridge, Gilmer Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, John Delilah, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, William Wirt Gilmer, William Wirt Kate, Miss ( children's teacher at Oaklands) Rose, (slave of Gilmer Family) Watts, Uncle |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
043\196951432-8.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Correspondence |
Object ID |
1969.51.432 |
Extent of Description |
Four pages, size 7 3/4" x 10" |