Description

Letter dated April 16 1852 from Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Roots Cobb and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, to Callie King, wife of Porter King and Marion's sister, written upon her return from a trip with her father to Charleston to purchase furniture. She describes her purchases which also included some clothing and the people she visited with there. Upon her return, the family went to see a minstrel show. Marion also provides news of a small pox outbreak in the town.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