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  1. letter - 09/22-1859 9/22/1859

    Letter headed Ivy Creek Sept.22 [1859 by context] from James Breckinridge to his sister Lucy at home. James is living with his Uncle William Gilmer at Ivy Creek in Albemarle County at this time. James is describing his life shooting Squirrels with his rifle in the morning and reading in the afternoon, gives a description of his meals including the contents of a Brunswick stew made with squirrels he shoots, tells of Delilah 9the cook) being too si...

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  2. letter - March 21, 1832

    Letter dated March 21, 1832 from Mary Gilmer, Ivy Creek, to her daughter Emma Breckinridge, at Grove Hill, near Fincastle in Botetourt County. Postmarked Hardin's Tavern, March 24. A short note at the end was added by one of Emma's brothers. News of the family, Francis Gilmer is to board at the Academy, and Lucy to attend school in Charlottesville.

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  3. 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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