Guide to the Hope Murdock Letter MSS.3303
Murdock, Hope
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
March 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
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Hope Murdock Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3303
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet
- Dates:
between 1850 and 1880
- Abstract:
Letter written by Hope Murdock of Utica, New York, to her nephew, James Smith, of Buffalo, New York.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Hope Murdock Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2011
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter written by Hope Murdock of Utica, New York, to her nephew, James Smith, of Buffalo, New York. In the letter, she apologizes to Smith for troubling him with her affairs, explaining, "the parties concerned have concluded they were too young to make any engagements at present." She also tells him that she recently visited other family members and had good reports of everyone.
Biographical/Historical note
Hope Murdock was born in 1804 or 1805 in Connecticut or New York (the US Census records for 1850 and 1860 list New York while the 1880 Census gives Connecticut). She lived in Utica, New York, in the 1850s and 1860s.
Letter Box SC0066 Folder 3303.01