Braithwaite, Mary, fl. 1860-1867 to Isora Skinkle
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.32.43 Author/Creator: Braithwaite, Mary, fl. 1860-1867 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 January 1867 Pagination: 4p. : 20.2 x 25.7 cm. Order a Copy
Informs her of Emma's wedding. Discusses the wedding and all the festivities around the wedding. Describes her ordeal with typhoid fever. Writes that she was bed ridden for the first three years and so sick that every day everyone expected her to pass away. Notes that this last year has been much better and that she has only been sick for a few weeks at a time. Request that she writes her back with the latest news on all of her old friends. The city listed in the letter is Middlefield; state is not given.
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