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- GLC#
- GLC01896.124-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1890/10/24
- Author/Creator
- Alfriend, Rosa A., 1838-?
- Title
- to [Roberta Jeffery]
- Place Written
- Petersburg, [Va.]
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Rosa sends her congratulations and a gift of towels to Aaron Jeffery and his bride Maimie [Mary Frances Goodwin] via his sister, Roberta. Also gives an update on many of her family members and acquaintances around Petersburg, asking Roberta Jeffery for information about others in Richmond. Mentions tensions with the Galt family, recommending to Roberta not to write to Mollie Galt again until she replies to her previous letters. "[T]he Galts are a peculiar people. I know Mollie thinks me eccentric but I don't care a picarjune for her opinion...she has an axe to grind." Concludes by repeating her best wishes for the new couple.
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