Series 6.1.: Correspondence, 1897-1907

Containers:

Box 4-6

Scope and content:

Correspondence of Elizabeth Willis "Bettie" (Eubank) Cabell, of "Inglewood," Variety Mills, Nelson co., Va., chiefly with her children and female relatives. Most non-family correspondence are letters of condolence for the deaths of various family members or requests for summer board.
Of particular interest are letters of John Willis Cabell while attending Roanoke College, Salem, Va., 1898-1900, and working on the construction of railroads in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1901-1907; Patrick Henry Carey Cabell of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice, health, and family news; Royal Eubank Cabell while attending Princeton University and while in Richmond working as his brother Carey's law partner, often discussing his brother's health problems and business activities; Somers Eubank Cabell while attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., 1902-1906, and working as an electrical engineer in Schnectedy, N.Y., 1907; Annie Woolston (Cabell) Flowers concerning her employment as a teacher in Vandemere, N.C., 1903-1905; the Lorraine family of Richmond, Va., concerning mutual friends and relations; Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews while teaching school in Farmville and Salem, Va., in the late 1890s, and after her marriage to Rev. Nathan Matthews and move to Liberia, 1905-1907, describing the mission school and local customs; and Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller discussing her adjustment as stepmother to her husbands' teenage daughters, the birth of her own children, and servant problems.

Correspondents include:

• Envelopes
• Unidentified
• Alexander, Margaret Anthony (Palmer)
• Ayres, Davis
• Ayres, Lina
• Barney, Rosa
• Bentley, Mary Grey
• Bentley, Virginia Lee
• Billups, L. A.
• Braisley, Arthur L.
• Brown, Sarah Randolph (Cabell)
• Burkhardt, Jane Carr (Dunn)
• Cabell, Charles Ellet
• Cabell, George Washington
• Cabell, John Willis
• Cabell, Lillian Hoge (Lorraine)
• Cabell, Lucy Gilmer
• Cabell, Mary Holmes (McGuire)
• Cabell, Mary Virginia (Ellet)
• Cabell, Mary Caroline
• Cabell, Patrick Henry Carey
• Cabell, Royal Eubank See also Cabell, Patrick Henry Carey
• Cabell, Somers Eubank
• Coleman, Frances Rutherfoord (Goodwin)
• Cutchins, Cary (Valentine)
• Darst, Thomas Campbell
• De Soucy, Pierre
• Dillard, S. C.
• Dunn, Annie Lewis
• Dunn, Elizabeth Irvine (Anthony) See: Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell)
• Dunn, Susie Lamb (Hill)
• Early, Mary Washington (Cabell)
• Elsom, Anna Louise (Shepherd)
• Emerson, Jane P.
• Eubank, Elias Newman
• Eubank, Louise
• Eubank, Mollie M. (Purcell) See: Eubank, Otis A.
• Eubank, Otis A.
• Eubank, Sidney P.
• Fitzpatrick, J. F.
• Flowers, Anne Woolston (Cabell)
• Flowers, Charles H.
• Flowers, W. A.
• Ford, T. W. (Mrs.)
• Gardner, Alice Jane (Mosby)
• Gentry, John Edwin Roller
• Gillespie, Ellie
• Goode, Elvue
• Harris, L. W.
• Herrell, Hallie (Eubank)
• Higginbotham, Mary Ida (Day)
• Higginbotham, Mary Frances Coleman
• Holladay, Sallie Syme (Ayres)
• Hoofnagle, Lillie G. (Carrington)
• Hutson, Daisy H.
• Jamar, Annie Roberts
• Johnson, Eliza D.
• Johnson, Emma A.
• Lorraine, Emma Louise
• Lorraine, Martha Evelyn (Bohannon)
• Lorraine, Mary Eloise (Moore)
• Lorraine, Wellford Bohannon
• McCue, Lavinia M.
• McDunnough, Ethel Davison
• Mathews, Jessie Woods (Higginbotham)
• Matthews, Margaret Etta (Cabell)
• Meier, A. (Mrs.)
• Merryman, Margaret Stuart (Roller) Cannaday Ogilvie
• Micklem, Margaret Etta (Eubank)
• Moore, Cary Ann (Coleman)
• Morton, Blanche (McKay)
• Myers, Nellie L.
• Palmer, Alice Winston (Cabell)
• Pence, Mary Hagey (Wunder)
• Repass, Laeta Moore (Goodwin)
• Riggan, S. G.
• Roller, John Edwin
• Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell)
• Roller, Lucy Cabell
• Saunders, O. Lee See: Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell) (1905)
• Seddon, Elvira Bruce (Cabell)
• Sessoms, Virginia Constance (Quarles)
• Shipman, Sarah Louise (Johnson)
• Shipman, William Jordan
• Simpson, Emma B.
• Simpson, Mary Grace
• Skinner, Emma (Ayres)
• Taylor, George Braxton
• Tucker, Anna J.
• Valentine, Allen Wilson
• Valentine, Sally Cary (Finch)
• Whelan, Anna La Mott (McClelland)
• Wilson, Aggy P.
• Wilson, Edward F.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 4: A-Cabell, Patrick Henry
Box 5: Cabell, Royal Eubank - J
Box 6: L - end

Physical description:

ca. 400 items

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