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Lelia Byers, Staunton, Virginia, to "Mama" Rebecca Byers Box 1, Folder 4

4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Lelia Byers reports that her lessons are going well; talks about various friends; mentions that when she walked by the Academy "two of the boys ran out on the porch and yelled at us"; has had fun out riding; asks for the hats to be sent by Sunday.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Byers Family Papers, 1806/1929
  3. Series 1: Personal Correspondence, 1820/1906

Mary McClung, Huntington, West Virginia?, to "Sis Bec" Rebecca Byers, 1893 Box 1, Folder 4

4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Mary McClung returned from her trip to Old Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 11, having traveled eight thousand miles; describes the visit with family members and the weather in Arizona; sorry to hear of the illness in her family; complains that it has been snowing since the return home; reports that Hallie and Louisa McClung? are in school; Mr. McClung has been on jury duty for over a month; he has presently gone "to hitch up to take a sleigh ride."

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Byers Family Papers, 1806/1929
  3. Series 1: Personal Correspondence, 1820/1906

Miscellaneous material, 1839/1906 Box 4, Folder 3

63 items. Miscellaneous material including a letter, 1 Jan. 1839, from Briscoe G. Baldwin, to William Shumate, Mount Sidney, Virginia, concerning the hire of "a smart, healthy, and likely Negro fellow…as a blacksmith"; report cards, 1890-1893, of Edwin C. and Howard S. Byers at Augusta Classical and Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Virginia; blue print of the "Holbrook Transition Spiral condensed for practical work," 1906; assorted recipes, grocery lists, laborer's records; and school and penmanship exercises, some by Samuel B. Weller.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Byers Family Papers, 1806/1929
  3. Series 5b: Miscellaneous, 1839/1906

Nannie Oler, Economy, Indiana, to "Uncle, " Robert Byers, Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, 1891 Box 1, Folder 3

3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Nannie Oler reports that her mother Jane Ann Stover? is ill; discusses the outlook for the crops of wheat and corn and the sale of hogs; gives prices on eggs and butter; asks if Lelice Byers us going to school.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Byers Family Papers, 1806/1929
  3. Series 1: Personal Correspondence, 1820/1906

Peter S. Baker, Columbus, Missouri, to Samuel C. Boyers, 1855 Box 1, Folder 2

3 pages. Autograph Letter Signed. Peter S. Baker has received cash and a bond from Virginia and is not sure how to split them up; finds it difficult to have a resident of Virginia as his security for the money coming to his children; has no further information on his appointment as guardian of Ann Craig's minor heirs; has divided the money equally between the seven heirs.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Byers Family Papers, 1806/1929
  3. Series 1: Personal Correspondence, 1820/1906

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