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Received his letter by Captain Middleton. Fan (grandchild) reads well though does not go to school. Missed chance to write by Captain Lemon. Mrs. Haley from Virginia gave Natty (Nathaniel Tucker) a report on him. Betty George married Daniel Tucker about 3 weeks ago. Only Bet (Elizabeth Tucker) was invited. Bet sends him preserved oranges.

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Presents his compliments by Captain Briggs. Sends him bunch of bananas which may be rare at this time of year. Hopes he received safely the letters self sent by Doctor Campbell's vessel with dispatches to forward to Boston.

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Ashamed I have been so neglectful in not answering your favors sooner. Mrs. Randle and little ones are very well.

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Sister Fanny and Mr. Tucker are much better' My Fanny and Bet are busy preserving oranges for you. I hope you have spent the Christmas cheerfully and merrily, may you live to see many returns of this season. My Fanny is sending you a pair of silk stockings for a Christmas box.

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I am staying with sister Fanny and Mr. Tucker, they are both quite ill. I am sending two pots of preferred oranges. The great scarcity of sugar prevents my sending more. Cousin Betty and Mr. Daniel Tucker are married.

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Wrote last by Captain Lamont. Tudor Tucker returned from West Indies without money for sloop he sold. Natty (Nathaniel Tucker) mentions Mrs. Haley whom St. George knew at Norfolk. Wants to buy colt from Colonel George Williams Fairfax. Starving condition here. No grain to be sold and prices high. Will try to send oranges and lemons.

Scope and Contents Doctor Campbell's brig sailed. A very great scarcity of provisions lately. Not a bushel of corn or peas for sale in the island. Captain Newbold from Charlestown on way to Leeward Island stopped to put his father-in-law Captain Dickinson ashore and stayed to sell provisions. Rice at 25/ four at 35/. Hear that provisions in Leeward Islands are cheaper than cost in America. Captain Ball arrived from Carioca ? had been taken by French snow from African coast. Self and wife have indifferent...

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There has not been a vessel from Bermuda since Sam Tucker's father came. You should have come down for the Christmas season. We have had two balls.

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Since you judge it proper to publish Bermudian I shall do every thing in my power to promote its success. 330 copies have been subscribed and many in this town have not been applied to. I hope they may amount to 500. I will go to Gloucester to survey a tract of land and hope to procure names in that county. Mr. Page sets out for Mannsfield and I design to give him a subscription paper. Give my compliments to our Friend Innes.

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Long to hear how you have fixed your self for the ensuing year. I shall see you in Williamsburg next week on my way to Gloucester, please apply to Doctor Galt for the balance of my account against him about £12 and pay Mr. Miller for his half year college fee.

Scope and Contents Watson's return furnishes opportunity of writing. Encloses little performances (poems). Accounts of Bermudian, "Epistle to Eleazer", "Hermit" and "Vision." Does not send him satire on government because of its unfinished state. Requests him to thank Henley for correcting Bermudian and prefixing sonnet to it. Approbation of Virginia literati pleasing. It is misfortune not to be intimate with any in province in which he resides. Brother (Thomas Tudor Tucker) far from being in condition to...

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This series is currently being added to the Box/Folder List section of the finding aid. Please check back periodically for updates. This series contains the correspondence of St. George Tucker, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The series is arranged in chronological order.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is currently being added to the Box/Folder List section of the finding aid. Please check back periodically for updates. This series contains the correspondence of St. George Tucker, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The series is arranged in chronological order.

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Typescripts.