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- GLC#
- GLC08165.28-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 29 June 1861
- Author/Creator
- Colcock, Emmeline, 1841-1861
- Title
- to William F. Colcock
- Place Written
- McPhersonville, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 3 p. : + env.
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
States Charles J.C. Hutson has asked her to marry him and she has accepted. Says Hutson will write to him tomorrow. Asks for his consent. Discusses her mother's death and says she wishes she could be here. William F. Colcock and Emmeline L. Huguenin were the writer's parents. Emmeline L. Huguenin died in 1858. Emmeline Colcock died late in 1861 before they were married. Hutson later put this letter in an envelope with a note, "My dear Emmeline's letter to her Father upon our engagement . . ." Their engagement is also discussed in GLC08165.29, and GLC08165.30.
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