Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Correspondence, 1838-1840
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
Dates:
1838-1840
Joel Roberts Poinsett, Department of War, Washington, D.C., to George Washington Hopkins, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. , 1838 March 10
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Object: 1
Identifier: id142972
Scope and Contents
Concerning "young Mr. Johnston's" appointment to the military academy; notes that he can do nothing at present, but promises "an impartial and as favorable consideration as circumstances will permit when a vacancy shall happen."
Dates:
1838 March 10
Louissa P. Preston, Columbia, S.C., to her cousin Mrs. George Frederick Holmes (Eliza Lavalette Floyd), Orangeburg, S.C., 1840 May 2
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Object: 2
Identifier: id142974
Scope and Contents
An invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Holmes for a visit and congratulating Eliza on her marriage; asks for "particulars" of Letitia Preston Floyd's son; and comments on the welfare of Eliza's brother and the dry weather.
Dates:
1840 May 2