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   Letter about a lace shawl worn by Elizabeth Taylor Minor at a party given in the honor of General Lafayette in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1825. The letter was written by Jane Minor to Mrs William Henry Dunn of Rapidan, Virginia in Culpeper county on July 25,1912. The letter reads as follows: Lace Shawl-In 1825, Elizabeth Taylor, wife of Col. Thomas Minor, jr. were the chief hostess & host at a Fete given in honor of "General Lafayette" in the...

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2. Letter - March 15, 1832

   Letter dated March 15, 1832 from Abraham C. Shelton, Pittsylvania, Virginia and postmarked Chalk Level, Virginia, March 15, to Peachy R. Gilmer, at Hardins Tavern, Albemarle County, Virginia, concerning the character of Benjamin Harrison, a client from Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia.

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3. Letter from Abraham C. Shelton - 03/24/1834

   Letter headed Pittsylvania 23 March 1834 from Abraham C. Shelton to "My Dear Friend" [Peachy R. Gilmer] explaining why he has not paid him a visit (extremely bad winter weather) and of his plans to move his family to "some rich health retreat" in the west and hopes Peachy will travel with him as far as Guyandotte and the great Ohio River, complains of ill health as he and his wife are suffering from rheumatism, mentions their friends Judge Leigh ...

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4. Letter from Abraham Shelton to Peachy Gilmer - April 18, 1833

   Discussion of states' right to secede. "Of all the evils of human life, I regard civil war as the greatest. I would myself make any sacrifice to preserve the union." He anticipates farming in Illinois. He is "tired unto death of the court."

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