Series 8.1.: Correspondence, 1899-1940

Containers:

Box 8-12

Scope and content:

Correspondence of Mary Caroline "Callie" Cabell, primarily with female family members and friends. Many letters are condolences for the deaths of various family members, including Patrick Henry Cabell (1907), Elizabeth Willis (Eubank) Cabell (1907), Lucy Brown Cabell (1911), Somers Eubank Cabell (1919), Patrick Henry Carey Cabell (1920), and Ann Elizabeth (Moore) Cabell (1932). Also included are letters from the parents of students at the Inglewood school, chiefly concerning arrivals and departures and fees.
Prominent correspondents include Elizabeth Henry (Roller) Bottimore (early letters are from Mary Caroline at Inglewood, Nelson co., Va., to Elizabeth as a child living in Harrisonburg; later letters are from Elizabeth in Richmond, Va., just before and after her marriage. Topics include family activities in Nelson co., and activities of Elizabeth and her sisters Lucy Cabell Roller and Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle), Elsie (Hughes) Cabell (of Tom's Creek, Va., wife of Somers Eubank Cabell, discussing their courtship, marriage, and family life), John Willis Cabell (while attending Roanoke College, Salem, Va., 1899-1900, teaching and working for railroads in Kentucky, 1900-1902, and living in Charlotte, N.C., with his family, 1920-1921), Royal Eubank Cabell (while attending Princeton University, 1898, working as a lawyer in Richmond, Va., as Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington, D.C., and after his return to his Richmond law practice, concerning the health of his brother, Patrick Henry Carey Cabell, the activities of the Roller children and the settlement of John Edwin Roller's estate, and family news), Somers Eubank Cabell (while attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1903-1906, and working for General Electric in Schnectady, N.Y.), Annie Woolston (Cabell) Flowers (while teaching in Kentucky and Vandemere, N.C., detailing life in Nelson co., illnesses among family members, plans for family weddings, including hers in 1905, and her life in Vandemere after her marriage), Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews (chiefly from early in her marriage to Rev. Nathan Matthews and while living in Liberia, and later while living in Danvers, Mass., concerning her husband's abuse and her quandary over whether to leave him), Anne Woolston (Roller) Pyle (early letters concern her childhood in Harrisonburg, Va., and, after her mother's death in 1914, her education and social life in Richmond, Va.), Lucy Brown (Cabell) Roller (chiefly after her marriage to John E. Roller and while living in Harrisonburg, Va., letters written to her from Mary Caroline concerning life in Nelson co., including the comings and goings of Cabell and Micklem family members and boarders, marriages, illnesses, deaths, servant troubles, the activities of sister Margaret Etta (Cabell) Matthews, including her return from Africa for the births of her children, requests for the purchase of various items of clothing, and the well-being of Lucy's three daughters), and Lucy Cabell Roller (while living as a child in Harrisonburg, Va., and after the deaths of her parents, at school and living in Richmond, Va.).

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Correspondents include:

• Unidentified
• Bates, Minnie
• Bottimore, Elizabeth Henry (Roller)
• Boyce, H. G.
• Bradshaw, Katherine E. S.
• Brown, Sarah Randolph (Cabell)
• Burkhardt, Jane Carr (Dunn)
• Cabell, Anne E.
• Cabell, Anne Elizabeth (Moore)
• Cabell, Anne (Renfro) Tomlinson
• Cabell, Charles Lorraine
• Cabell, Charles Patrick
• Cabell, Edmonia Elizabeth
• Cabell, Elsie (Hughes)
• Cabell, George Washington
• Cabell, John W.
• Cabell, Lillian Hoge (Lorraine)
• Cabell, Louisa Withers
• Cabell, Lucy Gilmer
• Cabell, Margaret
• Cabell, Mary
• Cabell, Royal Eubank
• Cabell, Samuel Jordan
• Cabell, Sallie J. Laidley
• Cabell, Somers Eubank
• Calloway, Patrick Henry
• Coleman, Frances LeBaron
• Coleman, Rutherfoord
• Coleman, Samuel Henry
• Cook, W. E. (Mrs.)
• Dawson, Gertrude H.
• Dortch, Jeffress Samuel
• Dunn, Susie Lamb (Hill)
• Eichelberger, Lillie M.
• Field, John P.
• Flowers, Anne Woolston (Cabell)
• Flowers, Charles H.
• Gardner, Francis Kinlock Nelson
• Gardner, Virginia Cabell
• Glover, Emma S.
• Grattan, Frances Lewis (Roller)
• Guy, Scott
• Herrell, Hattie (Eubank)
• Horsley, Clara Lee
• Horsley, Eliza Richardson
• James, Caroline Elizabeth (Micklem)
• Kirkpatrick, Lorraine (Mrs.)
• Lawson, Ethel M.
• Lee, Virginia L.
• Lemmon, Edward Travis
• Lienan, Oscar B.
• Lorraine, Charles
• McDunnough, Ethel Davison
• Mason, Bessie H.
• Mason, S. B.
• Massie, Barksdale
• Massie, William Withers
• Mathews, Jessie Woods (Higginbotham)
• Matthews, Margaret Etta (Cabell)
• Matthews, Patrick Cabell
• Micklem, Alice
• Moore, Robert T.
• Morton, Blanche (Mckay)
• Moss, Helen Carlton (Gardner)
• Mundy, C. D.
• Mundy, Ida C.
• Palmer, Alice Winston (Cabell)
• Pence, Mary Gertrude
• Phillips, Gillie
• Pyle, Anne Woolston (Roller)
• Randolph, Louisa H.
• Repass, Laeta Moore (Goodwin)
• Rich, Arnold Hoyer
• Rich, Ruth (Moncure) See Rich, Arnold Hoyer
• Roller, John Edwin
• Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell)
• Roller, Lucy Cabell
• Sheringham, Helen F.
• Sidbury, Helen M.
• Simpson, Mary
• Simpson, Walter
• Taylor, George Braxton
• Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
• Valentine, Sally Cary (Finch)
• Waters, Louisa Anderson
• Whelan, Anna La Mott (McClelland)
• Winold, Susie A.
• Wormeley, Lucy DuVal
• Yonce, Jo (Mrs.)
• Daughters of the American Revolution. Virginia. Massanutton Chapter
• Lynchburg National Bank & Trust Co., Lynchburg, Va.
• Miller & Roads, Incorporated, Richmond, Va.
• Nelson Parish, Nelson co., Va.
• Traveler's Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent:
Box 8: A - Cabell
Box 9: Calloway - L
Box 10: M - P
Box 11: R - Roller, Lucy Brown (Cabell)
Box 12: Roller, Lucy Cabell - end

Physical description:

ca. 600 items

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