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Recently saw Mrs. Maupin, and learned all was well in Williamsburg. Is anxious to take Page [Saunders?] home with her.

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Thanks the recipient for the invitation [to stay with her?], but does not think the enemy is coming. "Many thousand troops are landing on the peninsula to day and no one has left from fear except Mrs. Camm..." Does not know what she would have done without Arena, who divides her time between the writer, and her daughter in the country. [Fragment]

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Thanks her for the pretty and useful gift.

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In a letter, Miss Dix told her that she had had one of the Revolutionary curtains "of our Grandfathers, (which you gave to us)," framed and placed on display in Independence Hall. Some Confederates have blamed the writer for giving away these relics, but Miss Dix's pleas in her behalf at Fortress Monroe and Petersburg make it correct. Miss Dix was a great help, but the writer feels Mrs. Mayer did the most good in the time of threatened exile. [pp. 9-12 only]

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Farm was owned by Sally M. Galt and was said to be located 1 1/2 miles from King's Mill Wharf on James River. Also gives a brief description of Williamsburg.

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$6.14 paid by H.M.C. for Sally Galt to Mrs. Coleman for the Lee monument.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material....