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Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 20, 1878: Electronic Edition. Author: Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916 Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate Funder: Funding by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO. Transcription Information: Text transcribed by: Kelly Clark Images scanned by: Digital Production Center Text encoded by: Katherine M. Wisser Transcription Edition: Edition: First edition, Date: 2006 Publication Information: Publisher: Duke University Libraries Date: 2006 Availability: ©This work is the property of the Duke University Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. Source Information: Title: Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 20, 1878 Author: J. H. Southgate Date: 18780320 Note: James Haywood Southgate compliments his sister, Mattie Southgate, on her improvement in penmanship. He tells her of his visit with Dr. Le Doux and his wife and remarks that he feels "like getting a wife myself." James confides that he will not marry until he has $10,000 in the bank. This letter is written on stationery from the Citizen's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey. P: James Southgate papers, 1794-1944 and undated, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Class: Family -- Social life and customs -- Southern states Class: Men -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century Class: Courtship -- North Carolina -- 19th century Class: Le Doux, Dr. Class: Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century Class: Citizen's Insurance Company (Newark, N.J.) Class: Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History Class: Family -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs Class: Friendship in adolescence -- Southern states -- 19th century Class: Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence Class: Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate Class: Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916 Class: Marriage -- 19th century Class: Family -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs Class: Class: Class: Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916 Class: Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate, b. 1865 Class: Durham (N.C.) Class: Newark (N.J.)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Family -- Social life and customs -- Southern states Men -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century Courtship -- North Carolina -- 19th century Le Doux, Dr. Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century Citizen's Insurance Company (Newark, N.J.) Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century Durham (N.C.) -- History Family -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs Friendship in adolescence -- Southern states -- 19th century Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916 Marriage -- 19th century Family -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs Southgate, James Haywood, 1859-1916 Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate, b. 1865 Durham (N.C.) Newark (N.J.) of Newark, N. J. Assets over $450,000. Thos. M. Alfriend & Son, General Agents for Virginia, West Va., North and South Carolina and Dist. of Col., No. 1 North Tenth Street, (Shafer's Building,) Richmond, Va. Joseph M. Smith, President. L. J. Lyons, Vice-President. A. P. Scharff, Secretary. R. M. Rhodes, Treasurer. Your interesting little letter reached me last night and t'was thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated. My early reply will confirm this statement. Am glad to know that you had enough interest in your bug to write to him, and I certainly hope this will not be the end of our correspondence; but on the other hand I think it would be best for us to write to each other frequently. You know Mat it would'nt [sic] do for us to write love letters because we could not marry and if people were to get hold of these they would call us flirts. When I write these solemn documents there is always much to say-no difficulty in mailing
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