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Dates of Creation |
09/04/1859 |
Scope & Content |
Letter written September 4th, [18]59 headed Ivy Creek from James Breckinridge to his mother telling of his trip on the James River canal boat to Lynchburg and stopped a while and visited Aunt Belle [Gilmer] who was sick, purchased a set of shirt buttons, and the caught the canal boat to Scottsville, told of passing the "Balcony [Falls] and all the sights there, tells of a great tobacco crop his Uncle William [Gilmer] has raised, that his servant Delilah is very sick and may not recover, that the old rifle is ready to use on a squirrel hunt. Uncle William Gilmer adds a few lines on the last page, comments on his farm crops and mentions Delilah as being very sick and might die and "I will miss her greatly". |
Year Range from |
1859 |
Year Range to |
1859 |
Subjects |
Attack Beds Boats Canal Chairs Corn crop Decks (Ships) Die Fish Hotel hound Ladies Landings (Arrivals) Methodist preacher Natural bridges Packet boat Party Railroad cars Rifles Rocks Sailing Shaking hands shirt buttons Sick Squirrels Tobacco Crop Trunks voyage Water |
Search Terms |
Balcony Falls Breckinridge family Ivy Creek James River Canal Lynchburg, Virginia Scottsville, [Virginia] |
People |
Breckinridge family Breckinridge, Emma Jane Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, John Breckinridge, Peachy Gilmer Delilah, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Galt, Mollie Galt, Mr. (school teacher in Buchanan) Gilmer, Isabella (wife of Harmer) (Belle) Gilmer, William Wirt Harrison, Mr. Holliday, Miss Minor, Mr. ? Minor, Mrs. |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
052\196951561.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.561 |
Extent of Description |
6 1/4" x 8" four pages |