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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
October 10, 1842 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed "Leigh October 10 1842" from Mary Gilmer to her daughter Emma at Catawba, Fincastle, Virginia, telling of trying to process 2 of her 42 bags of wool, digging sweet potatoes, family visits, information about Gilmer (Breckinridge); whitening [bleaching] cotton; tells of treating Lucy's bad cold with molasses, hog's lard, and pepper tea with exercise; comments they have planted half of their winter wheat and cured all their tobacco; discusses Harmer's plans to buy a house and furniture and the debt that will involve; and closes asking for the recipe for "whitening cotton." |
Year Range from |
1842 |
Year Range to |
1842 |
Subjects |
Birth cabbage seed Caps carriage box Chemise Cotton Cotton cloth Debt Dogs Ducks gold beads great coat hog's lard House buying house furnishings Hunting Lessons Molasses mush and milk pantalettes pepper tea Scissors Squirrels Stockings Sweet potatoes Synod Trunks whitening cotton Wool Wool industry wool picked Wool washed |
Search Terms |
Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle, Virginia Harper's Mill (processing wool) Leigh, residence in Albemarle County, VA Lexington, Virginia Meriweather's Mill (processing wool) |
People |
B, Mr. [Breckinridge] Bozziotri, Mr. (music teacher) Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, Gilmer Breckinridge, Mary Ann Carter, Mr. Daniel, Miss Martha Gilmer, Harmer Gilmer, Isabella (wife of Harmer) Gilmer, John Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer, William Wirt Stewart, Miss Watts, Mr. Wilson, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Woods, Dr. |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
006\196951318.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.318 |
Extent of Description |
Four leaves, size 8" x 9 3/4" |