Guide to the Letter from Mother to Daughter MSS.3041
Mother to Daughter
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-01-07T11:48-0600
- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Letter from Mother to Daughter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3041
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (1 letter)
- Dates:
1860s
- Abstract:
Letter from a mother to her daughter, updating her on family and friends.
- Acquisition Information:
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Wade Hall
- Processing Information:
Processed by
John C. Harris, 2010
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter from a mother to her daughter, updating her on family life. She mentions that the sister of an old friend was visiting in the area and had been sick with fever and ague, had three teeth pulled. In the night she began to bled where the teeth had been and as they could not stop the bleeding, she bled to death. The back page of the letter is in a different hand-writing, but the name at the end is illegible. The writer is a female - probably a sister to the recipient of the letter as she says "Ma says I had better fill this up..." This writer also states that she is planning to go to a social later that week.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Letter from Mother to Daughter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Letter Box SC0054 Folder 3041.01