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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 7 records found where LC Subject Heading is Care of children -- 19th century
	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.
	Letter from Lucy W. Ball to Richard Harvey Wright, September 19, 1885 Lucy shares news of her health with her brother Richard Harvey Wright and offers him advice on how to feed his baby daughter, Little May.
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, September 29, 1887 Thomas D. Wright acknowledges a letter from his brother, Richard Harvey Wright. Thomas notes that public concerns about frost damage on tobacco plants in North Carolina seem unwarranted. He believes this is the best crop of tobacco since the Civil War. He discusses real estate developments and the cost of land being sold by Tilly near Alston Avenue. Thomas closes with an update on the construction of Richard's new home.
	Letter from Thomas D. Wright to Richard Harvey Wright, July 21, 1887 Thomas blends family and business news in this letter to his brother, Richard Harvey Wright. He has just shipped roughly 20,000 pounds of tobacco to one customer. He tells Richard that his daughter May is sick and expresses hope that she will feel well by fall. He describes his own daughter who had also been ill as plump and teething.
	Letter from A. Jacobi, M.D. to Richard Harvey Wright, September 14, 1887 Dr. A. Jacobi, a prominent New York pediatrician advises Richard Wright to bring Mamie, his ailing daughter, to New York for a diagnosis.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to Delia H. Southgate, July 22, 1887 Mattie Southgate Jones writes her mother Delia Haywood Southgate who is visiting her relations in Asheville, North Carolina. Mattie's home is being moved across her lot, while her six-month old baby, Thomas Decatur Jones is teething and recovering from a fever. Mattie sends news of her father, James Southgate, who is in Saratoga Springs and her husband, "Tomie." She concludes her letter with regards for her cousins Lawrence Pulliam and his wife Kate Furman Pulliam and Eva Thomas Furman Brown and her husband Edwin Brown.

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