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- GLC#
- GLC01896.087-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1866/09/30
- Author/Creator
- Alfocord, E.B., fl. 1860-1866
- Title
- to Aaron Jeffery
- Place Written
- Petersburg, [Va.]
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Confidential discussion of legal efforts to have custody of "poor dear Richards [Jeffery] little orphan children," and despite the great amount of trouble they have caused her since their mother's death [Ann Jeffery], she is going to "October court" where "there fate will be decided." Offers to give Aaron money [$50] to aid in sending her great niece, Annie, to school. Also, hopes that "...the children have recovered from the whooping cough..."
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