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Colcock, Mary Anna, 1847-1889 to Charles J. Colcock

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08165.19 Author/Creator: Colcock, Mary Anna, 1847-1889 Place Written: Grahamville, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 24, 1871 Pagination: 2 p. : Order a Copy

Reports family news. Mentions that Farris wants Colcock's Jersey wagon. Apologizes for not writing to his wife, Theodora. Comments on the children and a relative with typhoid fever.

Colcock, Mary Anna, 1847-1889
Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902
Hutson, Theodora Olivia Colcock, 1849-?

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