Letter to nephew, 1855

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 75

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Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Letter regards family news.

Language:

English

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Lexington, Va.

My Dear Nephew,

I have corrected your letter & believing that you would understand the corrections better if I returned the letter with the corrections I have concluded to return it with this. And now I am not going to look over my letter, and I expect that there are some mistakes in it & if so I wish when you read it that you would point them out to your Pa or Ma and tell me of them when you next write, and if there are many you can just correct them, and return the letter thus corrected. I hope that you will get to a good school this Winter. I saw Doctor Bosworth this morning at the Hotel or Tavern in Town. He is up paying his son John a visit during the Christmas holidays & I wish that you would go & tell Mrs. Bosworth that I saw him & tell her also that John is well.

The Doctor told me that he thought that you would have a good teacher in Town this winter. I hope that you will get enough money to buy a calf and that you will grow up to be a good & wise man.

Give much love to your Father, Mother, Grace & Stark.

Your affectionate Uncle

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Correspondence

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