Box 6
Contains 14 Results:
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1848
7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1850
7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1851-1869
16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1871
25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1872
27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1873
16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1874
16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West & Agee which may force the sale of her land.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1875-1877
17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1878-1879
10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1880-1890
13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.
Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, undated
6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.
Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1869
Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1891
Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, undated
23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.