Edmund Berkeley letter

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
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Preferred citation:

Edmund Berkeley letter, 1863 November 26. MS 0154. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1 items
Creator:
Berkeley, Edmund, 1847-1906
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Edmund Berkeley letter, 1863 November 26. MS 0154. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of one letter from Edmund Berkeley to his mother Mary Lawson Berkeley (Williams). Berkeley has been informed of his sister's death and offers consolation to his mother. He also gives VMI news and complains about the food (early reference to "growley" a VMI slang word used for mess hall food).

Written from VMI, Lexington, Virginia. Edmund Berkeley has been informed of his sister's death and offers consolation to his mother. He also gives VMI news and complains about the food (early reference to "growley" a VMI slang word used for mess hall food).

Biographical / historical:

Edmund Berkeley was born in 1847 in Aldie, Virginia. He graduated VMI in 1867 and was a New Market cadet. After the Civil War he became a railroad executive. Berkeley died in 1906 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is buried in Haymarket, Virginia.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks