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![]() | Letter from Robert I. Rogers to Richard Harvey Wright, November 08, 1889 Robert I. Rogers shares news about real estate in Durham, the rise in tobacco prices and the upcoming meeting of Blackwell's creditors. He also comments on the smaller turn out for the evangelical preacher Sam Jones, who held his revival in Durham. | |
![]() | Letter from Charles M. Glenn to Richard Harvey Wright, August 13, 1890 Charles M. Glenn, a Greensboro pharmacist from Tate Brothers Wholesale Druggists, advises Richard Wright to take his ailing brother Thomas Wright to Buffalo Springs, Virginia where he could find a cure for his Gastro-Duodenal Catarrh or gall stones. | |
![]() | 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 James Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, Annie Moore Southgate, Mattie Logan Southgate, Celestia Muse Southgate, and Sallie Raboteau, September 07, 1883 James Southgate, together with his son James H. Southgate, sends news to his Durham household from Richmond, Virginia where the elder Southgate seeks medical care for his ailments. James describes the visits with friends, and the medical treatment he is receiving from his physician. James H. Southgate closes the letter with a postscript that describes the "Retreat for the Sick" and its costs. This letter was written on J. Southgate and Son, General Life, Fire, and Accident Insurance Agents stationery. | |
![]() | Letter from James Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, September 12, 1883 James Southgate sends news to his wife, Delia H. Southgate, from the "Retreat for the Sick" in Richmond, Virginia. James describes the medicines--Blue Mass, Chlorate of Potash and calomel--that he has taken for his ailments and the effects these have had on his mouth and stomach. He notes the prices of fruits in the Richmond market, visits from the Mohsberg family, and advises Delia to make arrangements in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro to purchase peaches and pears for canning. Southgate asks for news about Mattie who is traveling, his niece Undine and expresses concern for Mrs. Lipscomb and Minnie Moore who are ill. He offers his family dietary advice and requests that Delia send him the family's newspapers after they have been read at home. |
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