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Letter from Virginia C. Braxton to her sister Fanny (Coalter) Braxton
Mss65B855.002
Envelope
[_ _ ll Church, va
feb 25th 1860
Mrs H. P. Brown
Petersburg
Virginia
Friday 26th / 60
My dearest Fanny
Here we are safely lodged
at Cousin [__'s], the children well & no disease
on the Hill. I was very tired when I got to
Forest, & after waiting I hour & 3/4 we got on the
Cars, with the dirtiest set of people I ever
saw, got nice lodgings at the [ ] house
& after a bad night, dressed at 4 o'clock , for
this place, [ ] not [ ], & went to bed
on my arrival & spent several hours -
[ ? tor] went home yesterday, & I went to the
Lt John [ ] last night spent $5 & had
a very nice time, saw Corbin & [Be ] [ y]
with their [ ]. by the way tell
Lizzy every one says B - is certainly engaged
to Lizzy [Pliasant ? ] miss Henrietta's sister, she
is quite fine looking & I am told is a fine
woman. B - came to see her nearly every night
she lives at Mr Winstons with her brother Tom
H. poor match I think, she is Peggy [ ]
old friend. Corbin's is a miss Briggs quite pretty
2
& seems very much in love with him. I felt
much amused to see him & Beverly, looking
so devotedly at their future brides as the
world terms them, think of C - taking a
wife to him self - how absurd - Jack
was to have come down Wednesday night
I have not heard wheather he did or not
I wish our brothers could join those
3 I think it would be a good thing.
Charles took a good cry in the Carriage
& at Forest too - [ ] go back to see Aunt Fanny
[ ] he is [ ] delighted with Aunt Sue
I was so sorry to bring them away so soon
& Caroline distressed her-self all night
but her husband is some help now, she
sends her love to Henrietta, Cousin Sue
sends he love to both, & says thank Peggy for her
kind note & tell her it was no trouble to [ ]
to have charge of the bonnet. You must write
soon. Oh: I have wished for you to eat some
of the nice strawberries Cousin Sue has, they
are so fine & sweet & good, I passed off for
I widow last night & Mr C - Randolph
did not know me, what think you of that
Best love to Peggy [ ] & Aunt [Lachey ??]
I want to hear from you soon so write
yr aff, Sister V. C. Braxton
(ed: 'yr aff' in the line above is shorthand for 'your affectionate.' A very common greeting in the 1860s.)
(ed: In general Virginia's handwriting is easy to read. She fails to use punctuation and capitalization in many cases but you quickly adjust to her style. Most of the transcription problems are with first and last names. Fanny knows these people so Virginia lets her penmanship get lazy on names.)
JT Copperclad - transcriber
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