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Scope and Contents The first letter is endorsed by John Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St. George Tucker Coalter but was completed and signed by his wife.

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Scope and Contents Content is principally concerned with the rapidly deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter. In June he begins a letter that he is unable to finish but by November he is again supervising the farm activity. The establishment of the new farm and the erection of additional buildings is a great strain.

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Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for her husband who was too weak to write, but by December he was again active in supervising St. George's Park, their new home.

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Scope and Contents 3 letters. Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker, who has moved back to Williamsburg.

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Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter their son, John, falls down the basement stairs and is unconscious for a time. His father writes, "the Doctor bled him and yesterday morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now to all appearances as well as ever tho' from loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low diet he is a little fainty when he first begins to move about in the morning." (The child survived the ministrations of the doctor.)

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A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for another $100.00 on shares of stock.

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Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate left by John Coalter to his two children.

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Scope and Contents 7 letters. Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and "has lost all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he makes a trip down country in April, only to return much worse.

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He marks his 30th birthday: "I can neither eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand up or sit down."

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Scope and Contents 3 letters. Letters written to her husband when he is on his last trip from home.

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A doctor's prescription: salts, used internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot Springs, and continued exercise.

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Announces the birth of a child to Mrs. Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of the "fire in my breast that must soon burn me out."

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Autographed letters signed E. News of a young son; congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter: "I can't make much hand at writing this evening but I send you these few words to comfort you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may the Lord work all things together for our good." To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan hasadded the endorsement, "The last line I ever got from him."

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(St. George Tucker Coalter died at St. George's Park on, August 18, 1839.)

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After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter has gone to live with her sister-in-law at Eagle Point.

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Unsigned and undated.

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Scope and Contents Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was living with the family and takes the place of a father to the children.

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The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at Roanoke, a plantation that had been in litigation since the death of John Randolph. The property was being administered by J. R. Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will, then being contested.

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Announcing the birth of a child.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The correspondence between St. George T. Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form the core of the material in this box. It includes letters exchanged by the cousins, five Coalter children, and nine Bryan children. The controversy over the will of John Randolph of Roanoke is mentioned in several of the letters. St. George Tucker Coalter was a nephew of John Randolph, John Randolph Bryan was his godson, and both were heirs. St. George...

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Scope and Contents Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of the estate of her late husband took place in October.

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Scope and Contents Enquires about money from the estate of John Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected that the Coalter children would inherit something from his estate.)

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Scope and Contents Written from school to his aunt; "all of the boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay there until five in the evening."

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The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester County, is so isolated and the family growing so large that a school teacher was kept there for the other children. She mentions her brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling entertainer: "De [Delia] and myself went to Warner Hall...and there found an Italian ventriloquist with a hat on that had little bells all around the brim...if he comes to Chatham you will probably be deceived by him..."