Rose Winder, Pembroke, to Alex[ander] C. Garrett, Williamsburg, Virginia, 4 June 1842.

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Box-folder 1:2

Extent:

3 pages.

Scope and content:

Has been participating in a whirl of social events which she has enjoyed, but later questioned whether that were all there is to life; has been taught "to enjoy with liveliest zest the pure outpourings of disinterested friendship, & the exalted sentiments of the upright, cultivated mind"; has made some new acquaintances and would set him up with one, except that she is eighteen months older than he; informs him that Ma and Pa are expecting him this summer; was glad to hear "the cause of temperance was prospering so in Wmsbg" and mentions that "some of my favourites have signed the pledge."

Physical description:

ALS.

Names:

Alex[ander]

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