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- GLC#
- GLC04501.100-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 20, 1871
- Author/Creator
- Gibson, Tobias, fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Sarah [Gibson] Humphreys
- Place Written
- Oak Forest, [LA]
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
A melancholy letter discussing the difficulty of running a profitable plantation. Tobias worries over his children and his failings. He mentions the death of his wife, 20 years ago to the day. He writes of another woman he fell in love with after Louisiana died: "we were everything to each other but the nuptial ceremony . . . ." but "we do not correspond, but I hear occasionally of her."
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