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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 3 records found where LC Subject Heading is Virginia -- Description and travel -- 19th century
	Letter from Richard Harvey Wright to Thomas D. Wright, July 18, 1887 Writing on Lone Jack Cigarette Company stationary, Richard Harvey Wright directs his brother, Thomas, how to prize, package, and ship tobacco for the Charles Watkins & Company.
	Letter from Thomas Decatur Jones to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, August 16, 1886 In this letter, from Thomas Decatur Jones to, his wife, Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, Thomas gives news about his friends from Durham who traveled to the Hygeia Hotel, a sanatarium on the Virginia's coast to recuperate and fish. Thomas says all his friends except for John Angier has had some sort of ailment. Thomas's kidneys bothered him. Mr. Watts departed early to return with his father to Durham due to an illness. After Mr. Watts left, Thomas and his friends could not decide what route to return by to Durham. Some people wanted to travel along the Virginia coastline past Nag's Head, North Carolina, and then west to Durham. B Thomas wanted to return to Durham via Richmond, Virginia or further west through Asheville, North Carolina and then head south or west to Durham. Mr. Morehead says he must get home to Durham, North Carolina, by the next day. Thomas is upset he did not find Mattie in his bed at night. The letter is written on stationary with an engraved image of Hygeia Hot...
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 06, 1882 James Haywood Southgate sends his sister Mattie Logan Southgate a humorous letter and photograph. James provides an immodest analysis of his physical features by comparing them with those of nineteenth-century luminaries. "You will doubtless note the appearance of that Classic brow, that Websterian mouth, that Clay cut ear, that Calhoun nasal organ . . . ." He commends Mattie on her academic progress at the Wesleyan Female Institute, particularly her improvement in painting, and offers that he might be able to visit her in Staunton, Virginia.

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