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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Alfred Cook Correspondence, 1849-1856

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: id160805
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, business, tax and legal records, primarily 1848-1890, of various members of the Cook and Luttrell Families of Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia. The Cook family correspondence is concentrated between 1855 and 1858 and discusses the migration of several members of the family to western Virginia and Missouri, courtship and marriage, farming, and detailed accounts of family visits. The Luttrell correspondence, 1874-1890, contains letters to Mollie Luttrell...
Dates: 1849-1856
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family

Welford Johnson, Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri, to "Uncle" Alfred Cook, 1849 August 12

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: id162959
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Concerns lawsuit between Cook and "Aunt" Cecy (Cook?); mentions contention over estate of "Grandfather" Cook; discusses health of family and occurrence of cholera; progress of wheat, oat, and corn crops; mentions wife, Elizabeth.

Dates: 1849 August 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Alfred Cook Correspondence

Alfred M. Cook, Pleasant Retreat, (?), to "cousin", 1856 November 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: id162965
Scope and Contents

Sends news of the family at home; asks after other family members.

Dates: 1856 November 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Alfred Cook Correspondence