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Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.","This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePage-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThere are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eLawsuits and money owed.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eEscape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHer sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eRains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThree fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIs no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas visited Ewells.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNation.\u003c/title\u003e(Christmas\n                     present.)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of Caesar\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMaryland Churchman\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAfraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes will.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNote: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAlso a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThis tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e\n              ","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWritten by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","Includes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","Includes memorandum book.","Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eCorrespondence and papers of\n         members of the Page and Saunders families.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["Correspondence and papers of\n         members of the Page and Saunders families."],"famname_ssim":["Page Family,","Saunders Family.","Page family.","Saunders family."],"persname_ssim":["Page, Margaret Lowther.","Saunders, Lucy Burwell Page, 1807-\n            1886.","Saunders, Robert","Saunders, Roberta, d. 1894.","Saunders, Robert, 1845-1925.","Galt, Sally M.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810- 1894."],"names_ssim":["Page Family,","Saunders Family.","Page family.","Saunders family.","Page, Margaret Lowther.","Saunders, Lucy Burwell Page, 1807-\n            1886.","Saunders, Robert","Saunders, Roberta, d. 1894.","Saunders, Robert, 1845-1925.","Galt, Sally M.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810- 1894."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":122,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:51:05.212Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00059_c01"}},{"id":"viw_viw00059_c04","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00059_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_viw00059_c04","ref_ssm":["viw_viw00059_c04"],"id":"viw_viw00059_c04","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00059","_root_":"viw_viw00059","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00059","parent_ssi":"viw_viw00059","parent_ssim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viw_viw00059"],"title_filing_ssi":"Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879.","title_ssm":["Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879."],"title_tesim":["Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879."],"normalized_title_ssm":["Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879."],"text":["Miscellaneous, \n               \n               1813-1879.","Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932","Folder 6"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":93,"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"containers_ssim":["Folder 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":17,"_nest_path_":"/components#3","timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:51:05.212Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00059","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00059","_root_":"viw_viw00059","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00059","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00059.xml","title_ssm":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"title_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"text":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932","Mss. 39.1 P15","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th\n            century.","College of William and Mary--History--19th\n            century.","190 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n        This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.","This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","Includes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","Includes memorandum book.","Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","Correspondence and papers of\n         members of the Page and Saunders families.","Page Family,","Saunders Family.","Page family.","Saunders family.","Page, Margaret Lowther.","Saunders, Lucy Burwell Page, 1807-\n            1886.","Saunders, Robert","Saunders, Roberta, d. 1894.","Saunders, Robert, 1845-1925.","Galt, Sally M.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810- 1894.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"collection_ssim":["Page-Saunders Papers \n         \n         1790-1932"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 P15"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 P15"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Page Family,\n        Saunders Family."],"creator_ssim":["Page Family,\n        Saunders Family."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Page, Margaret Lowther.","Saunders, Lucy Burwell Page, 1807-\n            1886.","Saunders, Robert","Saunders, Roberta, d. 1894.","Saunders, Robert, 1845-1925.","Galt, Sally M.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810- 1894."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Page Family,","Saunders Family.","Page family.","Saunders family."],"creators_ssim":["Page, Margaret Lowther.","Saunders, Lucy Burwell Page, 1807-\n            1886.","Saunders, Robert","Saunders, Roberta, d. 1894.","Saunders, Robert, 1845-1925.","Galt, Sally M.","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810- 1894.","Page Family,","Saunders Family.","Page family.","Saunders family."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchase: 109 items, \n            1938."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th\n            century.","College of William and Mary--History--19th\n            century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th\n            century.","College of William and Mary--History--19th\n            century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["190 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged mostly chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged mostly chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization\n        This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRobert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePage-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThere are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eLawsuits and money owed.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eEscape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHer sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eRains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThree fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIs no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas visited Ewells.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNation.\u003c/title\u003e(Christmas\n                     present.)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of Caesar\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMaryland Churchman\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAfraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes will.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNote: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAlso a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThis tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e\n              ","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWritten by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.","This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRobert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePage-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThere are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eLawsuits and money owed.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eEscape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHer sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eRains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThree fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIs no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas visited Ewells.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNation.\u003c/title\u003e(Christmas\n                     present.)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of Caesar\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMaryland Churchman\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAfraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes will.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNote: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAlso a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThis tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e\n              ","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWritten by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1\n            contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers\n            concerning estates; Series 3 contains writtings; and Series\n            4 contains miscellaneous material.","Arrangement\n        This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the\n         University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of\n         mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was\n         president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the\n         Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor\n         of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the\n         Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in\n         1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and\n         Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868.","This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThere are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eLawsuits and money owed.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eEscape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. 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Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBirth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHer sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eRains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThree fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIs no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas visited Ewells.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNation.\u003c/title\u003e(Christmas\n                     present.)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLife of Caesar\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to \n                     \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMaryland Churchman\u003c/title\u003e.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAfraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes will.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNote: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eAlso a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eThis tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e\n              ","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a book of quotations which probably\n                  belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWritten by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of\n                  Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther\n         Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Virginia and\n         Williamsburg, Virginia with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. Also included are\n         a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New\n         York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page\n         Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and\n         correspondence of Robert Page Saunders.","There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the\n         College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16\n         February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and\n         letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","Lawsuits and money owed.","Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair\n                     from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer\n                     if can get deed of trust.","Death of her sister's fiance. Can't visit but\n                     entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of\n                     General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a\n                     letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of\n                     her children, Gregory and Peggy.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy\n                     helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr and Mrs. Sawyer.\n                     Unhappy by late proceedings of President and\n                     Professors. General impression their conduct\n                     equally reprehensible as that of the students.\n                     Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have\n                     tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece\n                     in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in\n                     Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This\n                     letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the\n                     faculty and students of William and Mary\n                     College.","Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther,\n                     at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death\n                     of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs.\n                     Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster\n                     [Gloucester County, Virginia] Expectation of\n                     visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain\n                     sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting\n                     William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry\n                     at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William,\n                     Maria and Mr. Skinner.[illegible SAR handwriting]\n                     Mr. Skinner returned here.","Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of\n                     her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before.\n                     Invites her and our dear William to visit.\n                     Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and\n                     granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought\n                     by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect\n                     recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd).\n                     Extreme heat. Son has left.","Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting\n                     daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use\n                     leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe\n                     County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur\n                     Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that\n                     Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not\n                     seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of\n                     having William's picture...wishes above all things\n                     to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most\n                     affectionately to our beloved Maria and William...\n                     Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","\" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest\n                     you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to\n                     inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the\n                     gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a\n                     school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr.\n                     Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and\n                     publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the\n                     Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have\n                     among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of\n                     whom you also enquire was well known to your\n                     Father. . . He resided either in gloster or\n                     Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden\n                     frequently spoken of, as being at no great\n                     Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of\n                     Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are\n                     relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account.\n                     Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo\n                     advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr.\n                     Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's\n                     hire for the last year in his hands) to get and\n                     pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to\n                     you.","Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested\n                     in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G.\n                     G.","Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father\n                     (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money\n                     and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably\n                     acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. [note says\n                     one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page\n                     wrote]","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr.\n                     P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident\n                     with boat to return to Bowling Green where\n                     daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in\n                     Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is\n                     sending. Mentions what others have been wearing.\n                     Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for\n                     you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach.\n                     Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has\n                     female teacher from the North who taught in\n                     Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington.\n                     . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in\n                     town at the Academy.\"","Three fortifications going up in our immediate\n                     neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed\n                     two days ago. Description of defenses at\n                     Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade\n                     intended to worry people out of a vote for\n                     secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank\n                     huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript\n                     available.","Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr.\n                     Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor\n                     Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his\n                     French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on\n                     him. Not pleased with position but friends worked\n                     so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for\n                     awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode\n                     remains unwell.","Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen\n                     Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military\n                     Institute.","Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably\n                     not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's\n                     skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around\n                     Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's\n                     Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs.\n                     Morison's porch hit by shell.","Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook\n                     possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left\n                     it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea.\n                     Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on\n                     Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs.\n                     Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","Has visited Ewells.","Description of Ashland. Visit to the household\n                     of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has\n                     been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position\n                     as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to\n                     do.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will\n                     be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Sends enclosed [invitations to Robert?]\n                     Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from\n                     Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth.\n                     Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up\n                     the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno.\n                     Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but\n                     she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He\n                     was so intemperate in this city before he left and\n                     had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact\n                     publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put\n                     story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of\n                     Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be\n                     in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William\n                     Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders.\n                     Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's.\n                     sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the \n                     Nation.(Christmas\n                     present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in\n                     Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is\n                     scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for \n                     Life of Caesar.\n                     Burning of house at Shelly.","Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His\n                     son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a\n                     great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no\n                     difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote\n                     that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or\n                     her father like it. Mr. Soctt does on Ewell's\n                     account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to \n                     Maryland Churchman.\n                     Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett,\n                     stationer.","Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his\n                     health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send\n                     box of eats and check.","Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her\n                     health statement. Talks about what her health\n                     statement said. Good health for my age.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book.\n                     Jack Munford's death.","Includes will.","Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back\n                     of front cover and on fly leaf.","Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B.\n                     J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture\n                     which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of\n                     Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a\n                        copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. 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