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Blair, Mrs. |
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Letter - 1836-1837
Undated letter from Lucy Gilmer to her sister, Emma Breckinridge, with no heading or salutation. Lucy is writing at the end of the Christmas season (she did not get home for Christmas) and she stayed at Mrs. Persico's school in Richmond and has visited some of her local kin folks. She comments on not receiving any letters from her brothers, wanting to see Emma and her children, and news of her visits in Richmond.
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Letter - March 8, 1838
Letter headed "Richmond, March 8th 1838" from Lucy Gilmer to her sister, Emma Breckinridge, near Fincastle, Botetourt County, thanking her for the goodies she sent by Mrs. Wharton and sending a pattern for a collar that Emma has offered to make for Lucy. She also mentions many of her friends at school by name and they have drawn caricatures that Lucy compares to Hogarth's work in England.
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Letter - November 13, 1836
Letter headed "Catawba, Nov. 13th 1836" from Emma Breckinridge to her sister, Lucy Gilmer, at Mr. Persico's Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. News of the family and neighbors -- the Gambles have left Grove Hill, the Watts children had whooping cough, and George Leyburn is going to China to be a missionary after he married Elizabeth Moseley.
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