Children--History--19th century
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Sarah Virginia Weight Hinton Diary
Diary, 1855-1862, of a child in Norfolk, Va. (apparently dictated to or copied over by her mother) and of her mother. Concerns trips to North Carolina and New York City and to springs in Virginia and records the family's move to a plantation near Richmond, Texas. Includes reports of friends dying in Norfolk during the yellow fever epidemic of 1855 and records the mothers ill health (possibly tuberculosis).
Gwendolen Howe Baby Journal
The Baby Journal designed and compiled by S. Alice Bray of New York, Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1882. Records the progress of a child, Gwendolen Howe, from her birth in 1885 up to age two. Handwritten entries.
Sarah M. Mead Diary
Gregory Page Letter to "Mama"
Gregory Page to "Mama." Discusses his health, school routine, fear of smallpox in Richmond, Va., and mentions Judge [St. George] Tucker.