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From Marion, Alabama, Porter King, lawyer, future judge and Perry County representative to the Alabama legislature, writes a letter dated November 9, 1856, to his wife Callie King, daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin in which he tells her he soon hopes to visit her and their son. He informs her of travels of family, neighbors and friends to the Montgomery Fair. He discusses his own plans to travel to the Dallas Court the following week. He gives his wife news of his father's family and also mentions the Goree family. King touches on the current political situation and states that he thinks abolitionism will die out.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO.

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Hargrett Library

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Digital Library of Georgia