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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
May 1, 1843 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed "Leigh May 1st 1843" from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, at Catawba near Fincastle, Botetourt tells of family and servants news, that Wilson (a slave) was allowed to take the ferry to visit with his dying mother, about the various activities Mary Gilmer has been involved with as to getting clothing and materials together for the family and 50 slaves, which she cuts out all the patterns by hand; about pruning tress and flowers, gardening, making rhubarb pies; explaining why she cannot visit at Catawba this summer; illnesses among the servants; and comments on the political elections just completed. A very long letter covering many subjects. |
Year Range from |
1843 |
Year Range to |
1843 |
Subjects |
Barrels Baskets Bonnets Brown sugar calomel (sore throat medicine) Candidates, Political Cart Church Clay Clothes Coffee Colts Dinners Election Election results Fence Ferries Flies Flower gardens Garments Gingham Grasshoppers horse dung hyacinths invitation Keys (Hardware) Knitting lawn, (fine dressmaking material) letter Locks (Canals) Manure Measles Meat Molasses Muslin Parties Peanuts Peas Pies Pigs Polls Pruning Rhubarb Scarlet fever sheeting shifts, (undergarment for girls) skirting, (sewing material) Socks sore throat Stockings Sugar Sulphur Sweet potatoes Tarts (Pies) Tree Trunks Turnips Watch chains Watches Yards |
Search Terms |
Albemarle County, Virginia Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia Fluvanna County, Virginia Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Leigh, residence in Albemarle County, VA Richmond, Virginia |
People |
Adams, Maria Amanda, servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Anderson, Dr. B, Mr. [Breckinridge] Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, Gilmer Cabell, Mr. Cabell, Mrs. Carter, Lucy Chism, Mary Cobbs, Mr. ( clergyman ) Delilah, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer Dunn, Mr. (unknown) Esther, child of Mildred, servant of Mary Gilmer Gilmer, Emma Walker Gilmer, George, Dr. Gilmer, Isabella (wife of Harmer) Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer, William Wirt Harrison, Mrs. Henry, servant of Mary Gilmer McKenny, Mrs. Mildred, (servant of Mary Gilmer) Page, (Unknown) Mr. Page, Frank Susan, [house slave of Mary Gilmer] Susan, [house slave of Mary Gilmer] Toler, candidate in 1843 Virginia election) Toler, F. Tucker, Judge ? Tucker, Mr. Tucker, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. John Watts, James Watts, Letitia Wilson, house servant (slave) of Mary Gilmer |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
006\196951336.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.336 |
Extent of Description |
Four leaves, size 7 1/2" x 12 1/4" |