Box 1

Makes a liquid and a poultice

General correspondence about family and friends.

Salutation to Louisa. From Richmond. "I hope you are attentive to your school and endeavoring to acquire as much information as possible."

From Falling Spring. Cousins. "You ought to come over to Greenbrier and you and she go to the White Sulphur Springs."

Lee was on Supreme Court of Virginia. Requests Martin to "bring out the books...to Pruntytown for me."

John P. Byrne, Clerk. Judgment that Serpell is indebted to Sanders for $88.50. Sheriff will sell the attached property, but matter was continued to next March term.

From Magnolia Plantation, St. Charles Parish. Long and tedious trip, having left Frankford Oct. 19. "All of my acquaintances lost no time in calling on me." "We have some cholera yet."

Inquiring about family and friends. Mentions that she had communicated that a number of weddings were to take place on the [South] Branch [of the Potomac] this fall and regrets that he could have no part in them.

From Zanesville. "I suppose you have heard of that dreadful murder in Paterson, N.J. Judge Van Winkle and his wife were both murdered."

From Grimes Hotel. "We marched with a bold front up the Allegheny, expecting to meet a tremendous snow storm...but were disappointed." Other family and friends news.