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  1. Letter - April 20, 1832

    Letter dated April 20, 1832 from Lucy Gilmer, at Ivy Creek, postmarked Hardin's Tavern, April 24, to her sister, Mrs. E. W. (Emma Walker) Breckinridge, at Grove Hill, near Fincastle in Botetourt County, Virginia. Written while attending school in Charlottesville "to a Mrs. Round". Letter discusses her brothers' activities; measles in family; and her school teachers and subjects.

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  2. Letter - March 8, 1827

    Letter dated March 8, 1827 from Mrs. Mary Gilmer to her daughter Emma at Mrs. Randolph's, New London. News of relatives and friends, plans for marriages, parties, and local events. Mr. Cobb is mentioned.

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  3. Letter - May 31, 1842

    Letter headed "Catawba May 31st 1842" from Emma Breckinridge to her Mother Mary Gilmer at Leigh near Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle, Virginia. Letter covers a range of topics, including Emma's concern for her son James and her husband who have traveled together from Fincastle to Albemarle County, the school arrangements for all her children, concern about her brother John who has been a student at the Theological High School in Alexandria, Virginia, ...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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