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1. 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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2. Letter from William Gilmer to his sister, Emma Gilmer Breckinridge - April 19, 1854 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835

   Letter headed "Ivy Creek Apr. 19, 1854" from William Gilmer to his sister, Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, offering advice on getting crops in the ground because of the severe weather and a late spring, says that tobacco will have a poor crop this year, plant corn by May 10, he has hauled out 500 loads of manure of 80 bushels (40,000 bushels), comments on James being lazy, although after being pushed has done well on his examinations, tells that Col. S...

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