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Box 7

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Thompson, Mary, Norfolk, Virginia, and Fort Leavenworth, to Mrs. Frances M. Lewis and Mrs. Mary Neale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858 November 2-1859 November 12

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 44
Identifier: id112253
Scope and Contents

(Last letter from Martha (Thompson) Pemberton.) Contents concern "All Saints" services; upcoming Agricultural Fair; Captain Pennock and the "Southern Star" sail for Paraguay; Tazewell takes a wife, Sue; increasing demand for sewing machines in Norfolk; church renovations; the Brooks family journeying through the Holy Land; description of church services at St. Paul's; crowds in Richmond; general family and social accounts. Includes two undated, signed fragments.

Dates: 1858 November 2-1859 November 12