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Title |
Letter from Alice (Watts) Saunders to Her Son, Fleming Saunders II, Sending News of the Family, Reporting on the Farming Operations, Including the Impressment of Some Crops, and Telling of Problems with Stealing |
Dates of Creation |
October 27, 1864 |
Scope & Content |
Letter form Alice (Watts) Saunders to her son, Fleming Saunders II, sending him news of the family, including the journey of her daughter Louisa with Louisa's husband Richard Terrell Davis to Charlottesville, her son Robert's return from Richmond and a visit by Sallie Gwathmey to his estate in Franklin County; reporting on the farming operations, including a delay in the sorghum harvest because of a broken machine, the impressment of some crops to feed the impoverished soldiers' wives and the destruction of a fence; and telling of problems with stealing, of which the negroes were suspected but the stolen items were not found in their cabins. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document. |
Year Range from |
1864 |
Creator |
Saunders, Alice (Watts) |
Year Range to |
1864 |
Subjects |
Cabins Candle light Church Churchgoing Civil War Clothing Collars Communication Convalescence Corn Cornfields Correspondence Drawers Family Farm Farm machinery Farming Farming operations Female education Fence Field Handkerchiefs Hogpen Hogs house guests Illness Impressment Letter Mill Negroes Pigs Politeness Provisions Rain Recovery Sacrament Sermon Servants Shirts Slave cabins Slavery Slaves Social life Socks Soldiers' wives Sorghum Transportation Visitors Wagon sheets Wagons Weather |
Search Terms |
Charlottesville, Virginia Lynchburg, Virginia Richmond, Virginia |
People |
Cassady, [unknown] Dabney, John B. [Blair] Davis, Louisa Morris (Saunders) Gwathmey, Sally (Sallie) Hale, Alice, [unknown] Marshall, [unknown] Moore, [unknown} Preston, Anna Maria (Saunders) S. A. W. [Saunders (Alice Watts)] Saunders, Fleming [Davis], Rchd [Richard Terrell] [Saunders], Caryetta [Davis] [Saunders], Peter [Saunders], Robert [Chancellor] [unknown], Betsy (slave) [unknown], James [unknown], Miss Lucy |
Collection |
Flat Creek Collection |
Imagefile |
045\201049103.JPG |
Number of images |
5 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
2010.49.103 |
Extent of Description |
7 3/4" x 9 3/4" 1 sheet, text sides 1-2, folded for insertion in an envelope; embossed in the upper left corner |