Writings

Containers:

Box 3, Folder 15

Scope and content:

Poems and stories written by various members of all the families, though the writer is usually not identified. Includes "Mr. Adam Foster's Letters describing 'old times in Gloucester Co., Va'" in 1848, sent to Mary and belonging to M. L. Tabb of St. Catherine's School; poem written for Maria Greenhow of Williamsburg by Leander, fragment of text," copied by F. B. Macaulay in 1854; Romeo and Juliet (revised and improved), a story about a cat named Dolly by F. C. J.; "Female Character" by Mary F. Jones; handwritten obituary for a pet bird (1874); "popular sayings from Pope"; fragment of notes, poem on the death of "Little Lizzie"; calculation of crop rotation and profits using "The Henley Four Field System"; prose story about Lands End; note that describes "...romantic delusion that the south was inhabited exclusively by aristocrats and picturesque negroes..."; fragment of a story about a young girl at a ball; notes on Spanish and European religious and political history; page from a book with a poem entitled "Stillness," which is addressed to Bangy; recipe for "Tomatoe Catsup," and a typescript manuscript of "Cousin Martha's recollections" of Eagle Point, Lands End and other areas of Gloucester.

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