Mary Kelly Watson Smith Papers 1814-1884

Scope and content:

Chiefly letters from Mary Kelly Watson Smith to her sister, Hortense Hay Watson. The majority of the correspondence was written in the decade after 1859, when Mary moved from Charlottesville with her husband, Jacob Henry Smith, to Greensboro, North Carolina. The letters contain details of life during and after the Civil War. Some of these letters have been published in the Love That Never Failed, printed by the Michie Company in 1928. #Microfilm M-38; 1624

Physical description:

90 items.

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