Box 6
Contains 109 Results:
J. Horace Lacy, Ellwood, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 August 22
A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to marry.
Frances Tucker Bryan, Rockbridge, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 September 8
Mattie H. Morton, Buffaloe, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1854 October 3
"Julia Green was here...when I told her that you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she was so jealous of you that she was ready to fight..."
Sallie W. Gaines, Powhite, to F. B. Coalter, 1854 October 6
"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr. William Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What shall I tell him for you?"
St. George T. Coalter, Boswell, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1854 October 23
St. George is now in school at Staunton.
A. Steven, Jr., Charlottesville, to Colonel Harrison Tomlin, 1855 January 12
Construction work to be done at the University of Virginia.
Rev. M. D. Hoge to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 January 28
"I hope that it will not be long before I have the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly remembered friend."
Letters from Mattie Morton, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 February-September
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, Eagle Point, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 February 12
Letters from Mrs. B.C. Lacy, Ellwood, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 February-December
Scope and Contents "I have heard several times of your engagement to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce."
Letters from Betty Braxton, Oak Springs, to Frances Bland Coalter, circa 1855 April
Sue Taliaferro, Belle Ville, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 May 28
Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia, younger sister of Fanny Coalter.
Sallie Gaines, Powhite, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 June 25
W. Hall to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 June 28
Mrs. B.C. Lacy, Eliwood, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 July 29
Frances Bland Coalter, Salt Sulphur Springs, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1855 September 1
Letters from Betty Braxton, Chericoke, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 November-December
Covers lacking.
Henry T. Coalter, Gloucester Court House, to Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan, 1855 November 21
Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt on business.
Lucy T. Braxton, Philadelphia, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 December 10
Letters from Fanny C. Braxton, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1855 December
Scope and Contents To her cousin regarding "Mr. President" and "The Vice." (This appears to refer to the Brown brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau. Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the latter.)
John Thompson Brown to Frances Bland Coalter, circa 1855
"I wish you to be very particular in your conversations with Peronneau not to let him have the least idea of the tenor of my remarks to you yesterday and at the same time manage to convince him that I am not in love with you, as I am afraid such is his present opinion."
Letters from Sue Carter, Pampatike, to Frances Bland Coalter, circa 1855
H. B. Tomlin, Richmond, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1856 January 9
Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan, Eagle Point, to Mrs. St. George Coalter, 1856 February 15
Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children; "the Roanoke business"--(evidently a reference to the still unsettled will of John Randolph of Roanoke.)
Letters from Mrs. B. C. Lacy, Chatham, to Frances Bland Coalter, 1856 February-December
Scope and Contents Covers lacking. Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother, has a horror of those "distracting springs" for invalids.