Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers and correspondence of three generations of the Brown Family of Virginia:  Frances (Fanny) Bland Coalter Brown and her husband, Henry Peronneau Brown (1838-1888),  J. Thompson and Cassie Tucker Brown (1890-1920) and Frances Bland Brown and Fleming Sanders (1921-1964).

Scope and Contents February 17, 1878 Martin D. Coalter to his Aunt, F. C. Brown Bellevue, Va. Am going to school at Tampatike. Uncle Tomlin is here most every night – other news of family and friends. March 27, 1878 S.V. (Mary Southall Venable, formerly Mrs. J.T. Brown) to Fanny A trip to Petersburg, made miserable by sleeping with Mr. V. at the hotel “bouncing beds – shook me like a joggling board” and his snoring . . . “I like Mrs. V. much better than I expected.” Thompson is splendid . . . so genteel and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers and correspondence of three generations of the Brown Family of Virginia:  Frances (Fanny) Bland Coalter Brown and her husband, Henry Peronneau Brown (1838-1888),  J. Thompson and Cassie Tucker Brown (1890-1920) and Frances Bland Brown and Fleming Sanders (1921-1964).