Mary F. G. Browne, Jefferson County, Kentucky, to Mrs. Mary D. Galt, Williamsburg, 1837
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- Box Series 2, Box 3, Folder 31
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The children are in the country because scarlet fever is so bad in Louisville, but Judy remained in town "as there is less danger of a grown person taking it." Mary is acting as school-mistress. Describes the classes. Cousin Norborne is "rearranging this place under the guidance of an English landscape gardener..." The cedars, which are very hard to replace in Kentucky, are dead. Recommends that if Sally ever leaves Williamsburg she go to Nachez as she is devoted to flowers and there "nearly every place is enclosed by a hedge of the Cherokee rose..." Expect various relatives next month, and may spend the winter in Key West. Recommends that Elizabeth read the life of Dr. Bidell.
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