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Phil, Uncle [slave of Mary Gilmer |
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Letter from Cary Breckinridge, Eliza Breckinridge and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to James Breckinridge, in care of B. F. [Frank] Minor, Esquire at Charlottesville (where James is a student at Minor's school) - January 13, 1852
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Letter from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her daughter, Mary Breckinridge Woodville, at Glencary in Sweet Springs, Virginia - September 1853 [by context] 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835
Undated letter headed "Monday evening" from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her daughter, Mary Breckinridge Woodville, at Glencary. The context makes this letter fit with several others written in September 1853. Her mother tells of plans to send various items by a carriage soon, of plans to make a screen from calico cotton and wood, of having Anderson [slave] make a new couch and "cover it with the curtain you think so ugly", suggesting Dr. Woodvill...
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Letter from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her husband, Cary Breckinridge - August 10, 1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835
Letter headed "Glencary August 10th 1853" from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her husband,Cary Breckinridge, telling about the health of Wilson (a slave who drives the carriage) who is very ill and had to be bled and dosed with calomel, and of Phil, another slave who she thinks can drive them home from the Springs in a single day, and she is considering leaving Maria to work for the bartender (a free Negro from Fincastle) at the Springs at the rate ...
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Letter from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her son, James Breckinridge, at VMI - June 1857 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835
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Letter of December 27, 1847 from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to Mary Gilmer - December 27, 1847
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