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Title:
Letter from Annie C. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, January 7, 1886: Electronic Edition.
Author:
Snow, Annie C., 1862-1936
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
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: Barbara Post
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 Annie C. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, January 7, 1886
Author: Annie C. Snow
Date: 18860107
Note: [description goes here]
P: Richard Harvey Wright Papers, 1870-1952, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Class: Wright, Mamie Exum, d. 1885
Class: Diseases -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
Class: Religion and sociology -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Class: Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Class: Burial -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History
Class: Dead
Class: Snow, Annie E., 1862 - 1936
Class: Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Class: Durham (N.C.)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Wright, Mamie Exum, d. 1885
Diseases -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
Religion and sociology -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Communication in the family -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Burial -- North Carolina -- 19th century
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Dead
Snow, Annie E., 1862 - 1936
Wright, Richard Harvey, 1851-1929
Durham (N.C.)

to you as soon as receipted. Mr. Snow has given the work his personal attention going up several times twice a day during its progress. As it is now, the grave had been moved according to your instructions, and the lot thoroughly levelled, spaded, fertilized and sown in blue grass and then covered with tobacco stems to protect the young grass as soon as it has sprouted. A man was kept busy a day and a half hauling dirt to raise the lower side of the lot - you know how the cemetery being on a hill slopes from the center;

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