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Box 6

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1848

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 51
Identifier: id163456
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1848

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1850

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 52
Identifier: id163457
Scope and Contents

7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.

Dates: 1849-1850

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1851-1869

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 53
Identifier: id163458
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1851-1869

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1871

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 54
Identifier: id163459
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870-1871

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1872

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 55
Identifier: id163460
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1872

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1873

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 56
Identifier: id163461
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1873

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1874

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 57
Identifier: id163462
Scope and Contents

16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West & Agee which may force the sale of her land.

Dates: 1874

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1875-1877

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 58
Identifier: id163463
Scope and Contents

17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.

Dates: 1875-1877

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1878-1879

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 59
Identifier: id163464
Scope and Contents

10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.

Dates: 1878-1879

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1880-1890

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 60
Identifier: id163465
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1880-1890

Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 61
Identifier: id163466
Scope and Contents

6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.

Dates: undated

Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1869

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 62
Identifier: id163467
Scope and Contents 25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and...
Dates: 1849-1869

Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1891

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 63
Identifier: id163468
Scope and Contents 10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M....
Dates: 1870-1891

Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, undated

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 64
Identifier: id163469
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated