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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 7 records found where LC Subject Heading is Wright, Mamie Exum, d. 1885
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, February 07, 1887 Thomas shares family news. Nannie Wright will take Richard's daughter, Little May to visit with Annie Snow. Little May seems "bright and playful this morning." Thomas thanks his brother for sending medicines and notes that the current illness has left him confined to his bed. Thomas asks his brother for advice on purchasing real estate from Tilley.
	Letter from Annie E. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, May 13, 1886 Annie E. Snow gives a report to her brother-in-law Richard H. Wright about her health after the birth of her son, Horace Snow. Annie approves Richard's selection of the monument, inscription, and verse for the grave of Richard's deceased wife, Mamie Exum Wright.
	Letter from Annie E. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, January 07, 1886 Annie E. Snow writes her brother-in-law Richard H. Wright about the difficulties she encounters with Mr. Linthicum who she hired to move and beautify the grave of Richard H. Wright's deceased wife, Mamie Exum Wright. She also thanks Richard for sending her a crayon drawing of her sister Mamie.
	Letter from Lucy W. Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, August 1885 Lucy attempts to console her brother Richard Harvey Wright after the death of his wife, Mamie Exum Wright. She also discusses tensions in the tobacco industry between the Duke family and her brother.
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, January 24, 1889 Thomas D. Wright updates his brother, Richard Harvey Wright, on Durham business news and the health of Mamie Richard's daughter. The child has just recovered from mumps.
	Letter from Lucy W. Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, June 22, 1885 Lucy Wright Ball sends her brother Richard Harvey Wright advice on feeding his infant daughter, Mamie E. Wright. Richard had lost his wife, Mamie Exum Wright, in childbirth and his sister Nannie had assumed responsibility for his newborn daughter. Lucy includes a separate note for her sister Nannie Wright where she expresses her concern for her niece's health and tries to persuade her siblings to bring young Mamie to Greensboro. She offers to help secure a wet nurse for her infant niece and suggests hand feeding the baby with scalded milk and catnip tea.
	Letter from Annie E. Snow to Richard Harvey Wright, June 25, 1885 Annie E. Snow sends her brother-in-law Richard H. Wright nutritional advice for his baby daughter. She tells Richard she has been in poor health and cannot consider travel. She recollects her sister's death in childbirth and lauds Richard's efforts to keep his infant daughter alive.

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