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Bouldin. Wood |
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Letter - April 12, 1841
Letter postmarked Hardin's Tavern on April 2, 1841 from Mary Gilmer to her daughter Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, with news of the plantation and crops, prospects for a good year, gives number of tobacco plants planted and estimated number to be harvested at the end of the season, family news about traveling to various homes, news that Harmer is back at work and doing well, although his mother is distressed t...
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Letter - January 20, 1837
Letter headed "Leigh, January 20, 1837" and mailed from Hardin's Tavern from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Emma Breckinridge, Catawba. Tells of Judge Carr's death, of farm business, of receiving canal damages for land in Fluvanna, of trouble with a Negro who threatened a white man and then ran away, and feeling she must sell him even though he is one of "the smartest Negroes for work on the plantation." This is a very interesting comment on the pr...
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Letter - June 20, 1844
Letter headed "Leigh, June 20th 1844" from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Lucy Gilmer, at Catawba near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia full of information on her family who have been visiting, questions about her children and when they plan to visit, brief remarks about the crops and garden being good, naming over 40 persons in this one letter.
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Letter - March 21, 1847
This letter headed "Richmond March 21st, 1847" from Wood Bouldin to William Gilmer at Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle, Virginia, is an invitation (almost a summons) to the marriage of Bouldin to Martha B. Daniel on the evening of April 14th at Mr. Ellet's in Philadelphia and insisting that he show up for the wedding.
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Letter - November 25, 1836
Letter headed "Pitts. C. H. Nov. 25th 1836," from George Gilmer to his sister, Emma Breckinridge, in Fincastle. Tells of the Gamble's stopping with him on their way to Florida, and how much he likes James Gamble. Reference to the Cobbs [in Bedford], the Misses Randolph, Miss Moseley's marriage and moving to China, and to the unhappy ending of his romance [with Miss Moseley].
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Letter - October 11, 1835
Letter headed "C. H. (Pittsylvania Court House) Oct. 11, 1835" from George H. Gilmer to his mother,Mary, at Fincastle. He congratulates Emma and Cary Breckinridge on the birth of a son. Tells of attending a railroad convention at Danville, and of community and state-wide effort to get a railroad through Danville; of the arrest and coming trial of a man who encouraged and helped a slave run away; of his plans to come to Albemarle for Harmer's wedd...
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Letter - October 15, 1841
Letter headed "Point of Honor, Oct 15th" from Martha Daniel to Lucy Gilmer at Catawba, carried by Lucy's brother Harmer. Year was determined by a letter from Ruth H. Blunt (Object ID 1969.51.287B) along with identifications of other persons named in this letter. Letter is newsy about things in Lynchburg, but does not mention Frank Gilmer's death earlier in the month of October.
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