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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
February 1, 1840 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed February 1st 1840 from Mary Gilmer posted at Hardin's Tavern, Virginia, to her daughter, Emma Breckinridge at Catawba, near Fincastle in Botetourt County. Emma's sister added a note at the end of this letter. Mary Gilmer is discussing the possibility of Emma and Cary moving to Albemarle County and buying land near Mary Gilmer's place (Leigh). She gives a list of positive things that could happen including "increasing our lives by ten years if we could walk to visit each other every day." Mary's daughter Lucy added remarks on the same line, and mentions the doctor that owns land for sale has a breed of cows they call "churnbusters" and have started calling the doctor by that name. |
Year Range from |
1840 |
Year Range to |
1840 |
Subjects |
Barns Battercakes Churnbusters [breed of cows] Corn cribs Cows Family news Financial difficulties Financiers Gardens Houses Lambs Land sale Land value Letters Mutton Neighbors President puddens Real Estate Sawmills Selling Senators Society Stables tan yard Tobacco University University students Vice presidents |
Search Terms |
Botetourt Co., Virginia Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Richmond, Virginia The Bridge (Natural) University [of Virginia] |
People |
B, Mr. [Breckinridge] Bankhead, John Breckinridge, Cary Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, Mary Ann Burwell, Mrs. Coles, Col. Isaac Gilmer family Gilmer, Frank Gilmer, John Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer, WIlliam Gooch, Dabney White, John White, Mr. ? Woods, Mr. Woods, Mrs |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
005\196951259.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.259 |
Extent of Description |
Four leaves, size 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" |