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Contains 109 Results:

Hess ( ), Ditchley, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 February 8

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: id174166
Scope and Contents

Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having finished the course.

Dates: 1853 February 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from Josie McIlwaine and Virginia Braxton Coalterto Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 March-May

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: id174167
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she leaves school.

Dates: 1853 March-May
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from Mrs. B.C. Lacy, Eliwood and Chatham, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 April-November

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: id174168
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1853 April-November
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Betty Braxton, Chericoke, to Virginia B. Coalter, 1853 May 1

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: id174169
Scope and Contents

Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home, Presley.

Dates: 1853 May 1
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from Mrs. Judith H. Coalter, Stanley, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1853 June-December

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: id174170
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents After many years of waiting (since the death of her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her move and of the illness that put her in bed afterward.

Dates: 1853 June-December
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Sallie Gaines, Powhite, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 June 18

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: id174171
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1853 June 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

J. T. Morton and Lizzie, Buffaloe, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 July 15

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: id174172
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1853 July 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Fanny W. Gaines, Powhite, to Fannie Coalter, 1853 July 16

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: id174173
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1853 July 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Rev. Moses D. Hoge, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 July 20

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Identifier: id174174
Scope and Contents The school is closed for the summer, his wife and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude "by having a little chat with you...and where I always think of you and the delightful morning when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish every memorial of you. "I greatly enjoyed your last brief visit to us and that evening (do you remember it?) when the music room being full of company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the back porch. I have been sitting there tonight." (A strange...
Dates: 1853 July 20
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Frances Bland Coalter, Stanley, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1853 November 18

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Identifier: id174175
Scope and Contents

Letter is addressed to "My own dear Aunt".

Dates: 1853 November 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

James K. Lee, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 November 29

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Identifier: id174176
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1853 November 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Hess to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter, circa 1853 November

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Identifier: id174177
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to "My dear sister". Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after she purchased her home, Stanley.

Dates: circa 1853 November
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Rev. M.D. Hoge, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1853 December 20

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Identifier: id174179
Scope and Contents

"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing that you could walk into the room and occupy a vacant chair hard by ."I hope to see you sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my guest a week at a time..."I would like you to marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only I...like you best as you are, except that you are too far from me."

Dates: 1853 December 20
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Rev. M. D. Hoge, Hampstead, to Frances Bland Coalter, circa 1854 January

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Identifier: id174181
Scope and Contents

"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for I feared you would not come to Hampstead..."

Dates: circa 1854 January
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from Lizzie Morton, Buffaloe and Petersburg, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 February

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: id174183
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1854 February
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Rev. M. D. Hoge, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 March 23

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 16
Identifier: id174184
Scope and Contents

"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to you--well, the very first time we get a chance to have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When shall the opportunity come? There is always so much company at your house..."

Dates: 1854 March 23
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from John Coalter II, Stanley Hall, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1854 April-July

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 17
Identifier: id174186
Scope and Contents

He conducts a school: "I succeeded in six days of raising 21 scholars." He writes that Henry has graduated in Law with distinction.

Dates: 1854 April-July
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Mrs. Susan M. Hoge to Fanny Bland Coalter, circa 1854 April

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 18
Identifier: id174188
Scope and Contents

"I think from his letter, Brother [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we had any idea of Mr. [Moses D.] Hogeis going on Thursday to see him and will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well enough to travel..."

Dates: circa 1854 April
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Mattie Morton, Buffaloe, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 April 27

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 19
Identifier: id174191
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend writes, "Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore purposely to see Mr. Hoge."

Dates: 1854 April 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Letters from Sallie W. Gaines, Powhite, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 June 12

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 20
Identifier: id174192
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore trip.

Dates: 1854 June 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Fannie W. Gaines, Powhite, to Fannie Bland Coalter, 1854 June 24

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 21
Identifier: id174193
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1854 June 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Rev. M. D. Hoge, New York, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 June 24

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 22
Identifier: id174195
Scope and Contents

"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get married before I return. I am to perform that service, you know..."

Dates: 1854 June 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Lizzie Morton, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 June 29

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 23
Identifier: id174196
Scope and Contents

Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev. Hoge: "Surely you could not think me so deceitful as to profess to love you and then say that you would try to entrap a gentleman. I did not say so. I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would address you, because I know he admired you very sincerely..."

Dates: 1854 June 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Alfred B. Tucker, Winchester, to Fanny B. Coalter, 1854 July 17

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 24
Identifier: id174198
Scope and Contents

A proposal of marriage.

Dates: 1854 July 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter

Mrs. Betty C. Lacy, Ellwood, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 July 19

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 25
Identifier: id174200
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Frances Bland Coalter is the daughter of St. George Tucker Coalter and grandchild of John Coalter. Her correspondence gives a picture of mid-nineteenth century life and includes a near scandal in her attachment to her married schoolmaster, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge. The contents of this box end with the marriage of Frances Bland Coalter and Henry Peronneau Brown. Letters of Brown and his wife resume in Box 21. Largely papers collected by Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she is...
Dates: 1854 July 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers / Correspondence of Frances Bland Coalter