Patrick H. Galt, Fort Monroe, to Elizabeth J. Galt, Williamsburg, 1844
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- Box Series 2, Box 6, Folder 62
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News of his "precious pet" Virginia Scott who entered the nunnery at Georgetown. Met the brother of Elizabeth Galt of Louisville. Had planned to visit Louisville in the Fall with Alexander, but now anticipates it less because was quite attached to Norborne. Has been visited by Alexander, William and his wife, Alex, Jr., James, "poor Gab's Alexander [Dr. Gabriel Alexander Dickie Galt?], and "Sally's second daughter [one of the Capron girls?], Anne, Alexina, and their father will soon go to the Springs. Recommends Canning's "Think I to myself," "D'Israeli's Coningsby," and Murray's "Prairel [?] Bird" for her reading. News of a duel between Hugh Pleasants and John Tyler Jr. The new "Presidentess" who he describes, will arrive in two days. [Note: Patrick may have met the brother of Elizabeth Thompson Gray Galt, the widow of Dr. Norborne A. Galt who died in 1844. President John Tyler, whose first wife died in 1842, shocked many people when he married Julia Gardiner, a woman 30 years his junior, in 1844.]
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