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Box Misc. MS Box 1

 Container

Contains 182 Results:

Letter, November 9, 1852

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents

JBF, Falmouth, VA, to AEF, Georgetown, D.C. Back of Letter is stamped and hand cancelled. Discusses sending her veil to her for her portrait.

Dates: November 9, 1852
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, November 12, 1852

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents

JBF, Falmouth, VA, to AEF, Georgetown, D.C. Sent her veil by Adams Express. Mentions Betty Conway.

Dates: November 12, 1852
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, November 13, 1852

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 7
Scope and Contents

JBF, Falmouth,VA, to AEF at Georgetown, D.C. Back of Letter is stamped and hand cancelled. Brief letter sending children’s greetings.

Dates: November 13, 1852
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, November 15, 1852

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 8
Scope and Contents

JBF, Falmouth, VA, to AEF at Georgetown, D.C. Letter/envelope is stamped and hand cancelled. Mentions Sally Fitzhugh. Only doing “half work at my mill from a scarcity of barrels.”

Dates: November 15, 1852
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, September 2, 1854

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 9
Scope and Contents

JBF, Bellemont (sic.), Falmouth, VA, to AEF at Warrenton Springs, (VA). Anticipating his family’s return home.

Dates: September 2, 1854
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, June 17, 1855

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 10
Scope and Contents

JBF, Belmont, Falmouth, VA, to AEF, who was visiting friends. Writes that the Democrats had a feast which ended in a fight. They invited President Pierce who had not come.

Dates: June 17, 1855
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, September 6, 1858

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 11
Scope and Contents

JBF at Rockbridge Alum Springs, VA, to AEF at Spotsylvania, VA, with stamped and hand cancelled envelope. Relates his quiet stay at the springs without his family.

Dates: September 6, 1858
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, February 1, 1866

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 12
Scope and Contents

AEF, at Belmont, Falmouth, VA, to her daughter, Edmo (EF), at school at Ingleside in Baltimore, MD. Mentions Nannie (Edmo’s sister, NF, and apparently at school also), Burwell, John (a brother) and George.

Dates: February 1, 1866
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, February 6, 1866

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 13
Scope and Contents

J.B. Ficklen, Jr., St. Timothy’s Hall, to his sisters EF and possibly NF. Forwarding news of their father’s illness.

Dates: February 6, 1866
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence

Letter, October 23, 1867

 Item — Box: Misc. MS Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 14
Scope and Contents

AEF, at Belmont, to EF and NF, with stamped and hand cancelled envelope addressed to the Misses Ficklen, in care of Miss Kummer, 64 Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore. Comments on hometown news, notes celebrations in community over “democratic victories in yesterday’s election.”

Dates: October 23, 1867
Found in: Special Collections / The Ficklen Family Private Papers / Correspondence