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Camp near Richmond, August 5, 1861
Camp near Richmond, Aug: 5th 1861 Dearest Eliza I am officer of the day today and in expectation rather than having a certainty of leaving tomorrow for Manassas. I hoped to find time to write you quite a long letter … Continue reading
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Hotel Fire! Portsmouth, Virginia, 1859
Macon House Jan: 16th 1859 Dear Eliza As you will rather expect to hear from me tomorrow evening, and as also events occurring around me since I left you enable me to scribble off a long & interesting letter, I … Continue reading
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Old Valentine Again, 1848
~~~ Old Valentine again has come – With joy to most, tho’ grief to some; And we who are young and gay should be, Free to receive him merrily.
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Tagged 1840s southern belle, 1848 Valentine poem, 19th century love and courtship, antebellum southern culture, documentary editing, early American Valentine poetry, early Victorian American love letters, early Victorian American youth culture, love and courtship, Mary Maillard, nineteenth century courtship, romantic love in the Old South, Skinner family Edenton, The Belles of Williamsburg: The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849, Tristrim Lowther Skinner, Valentine 2018
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Single, 1846
Harveys Neck March 28th 1846 My dear Miss Eliza— On the 25th of last month I wrote to you, and I cannot think that you would have permitted so long a time to pass without answering, if you had received, … Continue reading
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Young Love in the Old South
In the early spring of 1841, thirteen-year-old Eliza Fisk Harwood of Williamsburg, Virginia, wrote a letter to her friend Tristrim “Trim” Skinner so crammed with news that it was practically unreadable. What she considered to be her most important news, … Continue reading
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“General Harrison is certainly dead,” April 5, 1841
Williamsburg April 5th 1841 [Tazewell Hall] Conscience, my dear friend has severely reproved for thus neglecting to answer your truly welcome letter, and I sincerely hope that you will not think the phrase “out of sight, out of mind” applicable … Continue reading
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Camp at Fair Oaks, June 5, 1862
Camp on last Saturday’s battlefield – June 5th 1862 My dearest Wife I know that you have felt very anxious about me on account of not hearing from me since mine of Sunday morning[1], but I recollect having written you … Continue reading
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Letter from Cuba 1851
Cardenas Island of Cuba Jany 6th 1851 My Dear Child Well here am I in the place attacked some time since by the famous Lopez[1] I left Norfolk on the 20th Decbr & arrived here on Saturday after a boistrous … Continue reading
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