The Resource Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas, (manuscript)
Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas, (manuscript)
- Summary
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- Colston, Berkeley County, [West] Virginia writes letters full of motherly advice to her daughter concerning marriage, children, and deaths of children and husband. Topics include whooping cough, tooth extractions, dancing lessons, vaccinations, scarlet fever and "wasting disease" [the cholera epidemic of 1832]. She also comments on news of the day
- Topics of interest include a report on a visiting minister who attracted crowds so that there was no room for "the poor negroes who ... must stand at the windows and doors with many of the whites in order to hear"; illnesses and vaccination of slaves; the battle of Craney Island, her fears for her son Edward, and her doubts as to the justness of the War of 1812; a Fourth of July celebrated with "drinking, carousing, & all kinds of dissipation"; a trip to St. Croix describing sea bathing and her fear of sharks; the Congressional campaign of Edward Colston; a George Washington birthday celebration in Martinsburg; and studying at the University of Virginia
- There are a few brief mentions of your "Uncle Marshall."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 12
- Label
- Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas, 1807-1834
- Title
- Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas
- Inclusive dates
- 1807-1834
- Subject
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- Children -- Death
- Craney Island, Battle of, Va., 1813
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Anniversaries, etc
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History
- African Americans -- Virginia | Mineral Springs
- Dentistry -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Widows
- Epidemics -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Social conditions
- Cholera -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) -- Description and travel
- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Vaccination -- History -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Religion -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Diseases -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Personal narratives
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) -- History
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835
- University of Virginia -- Students
- Letters (Correspondence)
- Colston, Edward, 1786-1852
- Fourth of July celebrations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Colston, Berkeley County, [West] Virginia writes letters full of motherly advice to her daughter concerning marriage, children, and deaths of children and husband. Topics include whooping cough, tooth extractions, dancing lessons, vaccinations, scarlet fever and "wasting disease" [the cholera epidemic of 1832]. She also comments on news of the day
- Topics of interest include a report on a visiting minister who attracted crowds so that there was no room for "the poor negroes who ... must stand at the windows and doors with many of the whites in order to hear"; illnesses and vaccination of slaves; the battle of Craney Island, her fears for her son Edward, and her doubts as to the justness of the War of 1812; a Fourth of July celebrated with "drinking, carousing, & all kinds of dissipation"; a trip to St. Croix describing sea bathing and her fear of sharks; the Congressional campaign of Edward Colston; a George Washington birthday celebration in Martinsburg; and studying at the University of Virginia
- There are a few brief mentions of your "Uncle Marshall."
- Biographical or historical data
- Sister of Chief Justice John Marshall.
- Cataloging source
- VA@
- Label
- Elizabeth Marshall Colston letters to Mary Isham Thomas, (manuscript)
- http://library.link/vocab/branchCode
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- Special Collections
- Extent
- 12
- Note
- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Elizabeth Cocke Coles Fund, 2011/2012.
- http://library.link/vocab/recordID
- u5442519
- System control number
- (OCoLC)847735870
- Type of unit
- items.
Subject
- African Americans -- Diseases -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Virginia | Mineral Springs
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- History
- Children -- Death
- Cholera -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Colston, Edward, 1786-1852
- Craney Island, Battle of, Va., 1813
- Dentistry -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Epidemics -- Virginia -- 19th century
- Fourth of July celebrations
- Letters (Correspondence)
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) -- History
- Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) -- Description and travel
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Social conditions
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Personal narratives
- University of Virginia -- Students
- Vaccination -- History -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Religion -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Anniversaries, etc
- Widows
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