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- GLC#
- GLC07687.149-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 March 1862
- Author/Creator
- Van Nuys, G.L., fl. 1862
- Title
- to Samuel Watson Van Nuys
- Place Written
- Hopewell, Indiana
- Pagination
- 8 p. : envelope Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Expresses many thanks for the letter he received this evening, and hope that Van Nuys "will be home the comming [coming] summer." Describes an amusing episode at school involving Charles H. Smith and Mr. Shaw, the recent meeting of the local philosophical society, and an upcoming exhibition or orations. Also mentions frequent marriages among people in the area, and observes, "Perhaps this war is one incentive to action in the matrimonial line."
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