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1. 07/07/1865 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Avenel July 7 [1865 by context] from Lettie Burwell to Eliza Breckinridge telling of her shock at the death of Lucy, comparing that event to the death of her sister Fanny who had married James Breckinridge in 1862, a short time before Fanny passed away. James was killed in the Civil War on April 1, 1865. Lucy had married Thomas Jefferson Bassett in not many months before she died from typhoid fever. Tells of plans to sell Avenel and...

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2. 08/08/1862 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Avenel Sep 9, 1862 to Lucy Breckinridge from her sister in law Letitia Burwell (Avenel is the Burwell home in Bedford County) expressing their great grief and sorrow of the death of Fanny Burwell Breckinridge (wife of James Breckinridge) who passed away on August 26, 1862 with typhoid fever). Letitia states the family is so prostrated by this death they can hardly do anything, asks about Cary Breckinridge who apparently has suffered...

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3. 10/29/1862 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Avenel Oct. 29, 1862 from Eliza Breckinridge to her sister Emma telling of her visit to the Burwell home since Fanny Burwell Breckinridge passed away. they traveled by stage coach and had traveling companions, visited the cemetery where Fanny was buried, noted that it was very bleak with little turf growing. Fanny's widower husband James Breckinridge is trying to get a furlough so he can came to Avenel and visit his wife's grave. He...

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4. Account book - 1854 to 1872

   This small daybook was used to keep accounts of tuition, fees for boarding pupils, cash advances, and small store items. This was probably kept by Burford Wills for the years 1854 through 1859, in Franklin County, Virginia. He was reported to have the largest school in Franklin County before the Civil War. Wills also provided room and board for some of his pupils. Later entries were a recipe for "cleansing the blood" written by Wm. Holland, "plan...

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5. letter - 1861 9/22/1859

   Letter headed Avenel July 13th [1861] from Fanny Burwell to Eliza Breckinridge responding to an invitation to visit Grove Hill which her "Ma" would not allow due to the unsettled conditions in the state with "such a confusion of soldiers and cars", she is proposing that Eliza, Lucy and Miss Mary [Breckinridge Woodville] to come over to visit with the Burwells, makes a comment that "if the Yankees left us for five minutes, the Virginians would go ...

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6. Letter from Fanny Burwell to Eliza Breckinridge - January 18, 1858 19/15/1853 /1853 08/10/1853 08/10/1835

   Letter headed "Avenel Jan. 18th [by context 1858]" from F. B. [Fanny Burwell] to Eliza Breckinridge, replying to a letter that Eliza had written previously mentions she did not write sooner since she know that Eliza was attending parties in Buchanan, tells of staying two days at Greenfield, needed a gentleman to accompany her on her trip back to Bedford who rode with them in a carriage [Red Swan] to catch a train to Bedford, that she got on the s...

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