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Box 5

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Milligan, Martha L., Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis, 1850 January 2-1854 October 31

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Identifier: id111135
Scope and Contents

Concerning moving "Mama" into the Milligan household; request for daguerreotypes; family wedding; plans for trip to see the Crystal Palace; description of summer farm; gunpowder explosion in Wilmington; Margaret Gibbon's wedding; impressions of Newport and its fashionability; additional news of family and friends. (Letter of July 8, 1850 has several names cut-out from the body of page three.) (Martha L. Milligan was Mrs. J.J. Milligan.)

Dates: 1850 January 2-1854 October 31