Correspondence Between: Anne Maria (Lyman) and the Lyman Family:

Containers:

Box Box 1

Scope and content:

Richly detailed introduction to both Daniel Lyman and Richard Kidder Randolph familymembers, and their 19th century lifestyles in Oakland, Virginia, and in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island. Letters re: social scene, births, illnesses, deaths, politics, literature, sewing, spinning, wool/cotton manufacture, etc.

19 March 1807, compares Connecticut and Virginia, Connecticut being "the most moral state in the Union."

17 July 1808, 18 November 1808, [7 December 1808], re: the Embargo imposed by the United States government.

12 November 1808, re: [James] Madison, [James] Monroe, [John] Randolph, etc.

6 May 1819, re: injury to Commodore [Oliver Hazard] Perry's young son.

10 July 1856, re: [Harriet Elizabeth Beecher] Stowe.

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