Family correspondence of Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his father, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), and his mother, Anne Butler Carter Wickham (1797-1868)

Containers:

Box 11, Folder 4

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Scope and content:

While his father is away in New York and Boston, Williams Carter Wickham sends reports on the activities and condition of the plantation, including illness and death among the enslaved laborers (September 7, 1845; September 15, 1848). Williams Carter Wickham writes with further reports to his father hoping to catch him still at Bowling Green (August 30, 1849); and Williams describes a trip with his wife Lucy to New York and on to Quebec (August 27, 1855).

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