Charles Woodbury to Laughton (34 items)

Containers:
Box 1
Scope and content:

The correspondence begins July 14, 1854 and continues until 1860, the year Lily's engagement to Berghmans was announced. Woodbury was a N.H. and Boston lawyer, son of noted jurist Levi W. (b. 1791). He was about 15 years Lily's senior. He courted her and proposed marriage in 1854. Was refused. His letters are generally witty, occasionally referring to the rejected lover. Alludes to mutual friends, politics, travels, practice of law, society in Boston, Newport, D.C., Philadelphia.

Language:
English .

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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