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Box 1

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Contains 86 Results:

Thomas Cook and Sallie S. (Sarah Susan) Cook, (Taylor County, Virginia) West Virginia, to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1858 January 16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: id163956
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses trip to the "western lands" to visit brother, Burrell H. Cook; tells of relatives met.

Dates: 1858 January 16

Thomas J. Cook and "Sudie," Sarah Susan Cook, (Missouri?), to "Mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1858 April 19

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: id163957
Scope and Contents

Describes trip from Virginia to Missouri, and friends encountered along the way; mentions intention to marry in the near future.

Dates: 1858 April 19

Thomas J. Cook, Saline County, Missouri, to "nephew" (?), 1858 June 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: id163958
Scope and Contents

Discusses weather, and crops in Missouri as compared to Virginia; sends love to family members; intends to visit home when possible.

Dates: 1858 June 22

Thomas J. Cook, Saline County, Missouri, to "Mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County), Virginia, 1858 November 3

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: id163960
Scope and Contents

Discusses bad weather and illness in vicinity; mentions sisters, Sarah Susan, visit and brother, Burrell; also Frank Robinson and family; intends to return home when possible.

Dates: 1858 November 3

L.A. Corbin, Oak Shade, Leurs County, Missouri, to "cousin" (Thomas J. Cook?), (Culpeper County, Virginia?), circa 1860 March 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: id163961
Scope and Contents

Describes trip from Platte, Missouri to Oak Shade; weather makes travel bad, but is generally pleased with country; was glad to hear family is well; tells of acquaintances and friends living in Missouri.

Dates: circa 1860 March 24

William Williams, Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, to William A. Cook, Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia., 1849 May 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: id163962
Scope and Contents

Discusses his (WW) budding medical practice; ask Cook to remember him to all his old friends, as he will probably never see them again; mentions his intention to find a wife.

Dates: 1849 May 15

S.E.G. (?), Culpeper County, Virginia, to "Sudie" (Sarah Susan Cook), 1856 November 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163964
Scope and Contents

Discusses clothing Sarah Susan has asked to have made; mentions acquaintances.

Dates: 1856 November 28

Mary M. Benson, (Melvalle?), to "Sudo" (Sarah Susan Cook), Culpeper County, Virginia, 1857 January 31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163966
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses arrangements for Sarah Susan to make a bonnet for "M's" trip to Washington in March.

Dates: 1857 January 31

"Sallie," Sarah Susan Cook, and Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Glenn Mills, (Missouri?) to "mother" (Susan M. Cook), Marshall, Glenn Mills, (Missouri?), to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), No year September 8

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163970
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Describes Sarah Susan's conversion experience at a recent revival meeting; has recently been sick, as have many family members; mentions brother, Thomas, and brother-in-law, Joseph Marshall, as well as children, Fannie and "Lilly" (Lila).

Dates: No year September 8

"Sallie," Sarah Susan Cook, Boone County, Kentucky, to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), No year December 16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id163974
Scope and Contents

Talks of arrangements for her return to Virginia; mentions brothers, Burrell and Thomas; has been ill and there is a great deal of sickness in the air.

Dates: No year December 16

Lucy E. Cook, Union, Kentucky, to Cook family, Culpeper County Virginia, 1854 October 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id163994
Scope and Contents

Describes journey west; tells of relatives she has met; mentions parties she has attended; asks her family to write back.

Dates: 1854 October 24

Lucy E. Cook, Kentucky, to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1854 November 8

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164002
Scope and Contents

Describes her visit to Kentucky and the relatives she has met; sends love to her family and friends; asks for newspapers to be sent to her, especially The Baltimore Sun.

Dates: 1854 November 8

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Miami, Seline (sic) Saline County, Missouri, to "brother," Thomas J. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia, 1855 April 17

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164017
Scope and Contents

Includes a description of her new husband, and hopes her family will forgive her for marrying without asking them; describes Missouri; is very pleased with her situation.

Dates: 1855 April 17

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, to "brother," James Cook, (Culpeper County, Virginia?), 1855 May 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164027
Scope and Contents

Tells how happy she is in Missouri; is happy brother Thomas is teaching school, but thinks he would do better in Missouri; sends collar pattern and linen for sister [Sarah Susan?]; hopes to visit home soon.

Dates: 1855 May 10

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1855 June 7

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164048
Scope and Contents

Tells of potential for advancement in Missouri; talks of her husband, Joseph, and of relatives she has heard from.

Dates: 1855 June 7

Lucie (sic) E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, to "sis" (Sarah Susan Cook), 1855 June 26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164057
Scope and Contents

With annotations by recipient. Says she is well and very happy with her husband; hopes some of her relatives will visit soon, maybe to stay in Missouri.

Dates: 1855 June 26

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, (Saline County, Missouri?), to "brother" Thomas, Culpeper County, Virginia, 1856 August 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164069
Scope and Contents

Asks after her family; tells of her plans to visit them in the spring; is hesitant to visit friends in Kansas due to abolitionist controversy there.

Dates: 1856 August 30

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, to "brother" (Thomas Jimson Cook?), (Culpeper County, Virginia), 1856 December 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id164070
Scope and Contents

Mentions she has not heard from her family in months; tells about her Missouri acquaintances; discusses plans to visit friends and family in Kentucky and Virginia.

Dates: 1856 December 21

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1857 November 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id163979
Scope and Contents

Describes new home and work associated with taking in boarders; announces birth of a daughter; sends love to family.

Dates: 1857 November 29

Lucy E. Cook Marshall, Saline County, Missouri to "mother" (Susan M. Cook, Culpeper County, Virginia), 1858 November 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: id163982
Scope and Contents

Mentions husband (Joseph Marshall) and children (Fannie and Lila); details her work and her husband's investments in hogs, and his building of a distillery; tells of food she has prepared for the winter; sends her love to the rest of the family.

Dates: 1858 November 18

Unknown author,Cassville, to Lucie (?), 1852 April 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: id164075
Scope and Contents

Incomplete. Portion of a marriage proposal?

Dates: 1852 April 27

Unknown author, Kentucky, to his cousin, Susan (Cook?), Virginia, 1859 April 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: id164077
Scope and Contents

Mentions his cousin's ill health; refers to his standing proposal of marriage; discusses one of his two daughters, Becky, and his sons.

Dates: 1859 April 30

H. A. Hemper, to "Francis," Cecy F. Luttrell, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: id164079

"Cousin," J.G. Luttrell, Linwood, (Virginia?), to Mollie Luttrell, Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, 1874 October 31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: id164081
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Describes his progress in school; discusses "cousin" Sudie's (Sarah Susan (Cook) Kendrick) new baby, Mary Frances.

Dates: 1874 October 31