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Box 1

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Contains 8 Results:

Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence, 1855-1858

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id160808
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: 1855-1858
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family

Burrell Henry Cook, "Mountainview," Culpeper County, Virginia, to Kate (?), 1855 March 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163944
Scope and Contents

Reflects on the meaning and necessity of marriage; sends her his love.

Dates: 1855 March 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Helen Mary Gawthrop, Bridgeport, Harrison County, Virginia (West Virginia), to "cousin" Burrell H. Cook, Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163945
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Talks of family and friends; mentions upcoming trip to Kentucky; hopes he is not a "Know-Nothing" as she would disapprove.

Dates: 1855-1858
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Helen Mary Gawthrop, Bridgeport, Harrison County, Virginia (West Virginia), to "cousin Burrell H. Cook, Oak Shade, Virginia, 1855 August 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163946
Scope and Contents

Discusses family news, weather, and crop conditions; mentions possibility of going with him to a camp meeting in Kentucky; hopes he will come for a visit this summer.

Dates: 1855 August 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Burrell H. Cook, Boothes Creek, Taylor County, Virginia (West Virginia) to his brother (Thomas J. Cook), 1856 June 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163947
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses corn crop; asks him to come to Taylor County; says he can teach school if he wants; including postscript noting death of "Col." Perry and "Uncle" William Corbin; mentions (wife?) Helen Mary.

Dates: 1856 June 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Burrell H. Cook, to his mother, Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia, 1858 April 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163948
Scope and Contents

Asks her to sign a financial note and give it to James W. Luttrell for safe-keeping.

Dates: 1858 April 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Burrell H. Cook, Taylor County, Virginia (West Virginia) to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1858 June 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163949
Scope and Contents

Discusses weather and corn crop progress; mentions sister Sarah (Susan), and brother, Thomas; asks for $150 to buy a farm.

Dates: 1858 June 22
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence

Burrell H. Cook, to Thomas Jimson Cook, Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: id163950
Scope and Contents

Discusses agriculture and family business.

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Cook-Luttrell Papers / Series 1: Personal Correspondence / Cook Family / Burrell Henry Cook Correspondence