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  1. Letter - April 17, 1832

    A letter dated April 17, 1832 from George H. Gilmer, at Ivy Creek, (with notes added by his brother William and his mother Mary Gilmer) to his sister, Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, at Grove Hill near Fincastle in Botetourt County. Family news of a measles epidemic, among other things.

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  2. Letter - February 26, 1842

    Letter headed "Howard February 26 Saturday [1842]" from John Gilmer to his mother Mary Gilmer, at Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle County, Virginia. John wrote the first part of this letter explaining how he was spending money for his education and a report on the progress he is making, joining the debating society, need for more clothes and so forth. The second part of this letter was written by Mary Gilmer to her daughter Emma Breckinridge (no addres...

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  3. Letter - May 13, 1847

    This letter headed "Leigh May 13th 1847" from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Emma, at Grove Hill near Fincastle. Mary tells of news received about Mary Ann Breckinridge and her new husband George Wilmer, visiting at several cities to the north, comments on the weather and a lot of rain, cutting "more than 100 yards of cotton Osnaburg and got the seamtresses at work on the summer clothes", has quilted two comforts, of Captain Carter making another f...

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