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Roxana Chapin Gerdine to Emily McKinstry Chapin (1860-1862 November 29)

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Identifier	MUM00683, 1.15
Title	Roxana Chapin Gerdine to Emily McKinstry Chapin (1860-1862 November 29)
Author	Gerdine, Roxana Chapin, 1833-1891
Recipient	Chapin, Emily McKinstry
Date	29 November [c 1860-1862]
Location	West Point (Miss.)
Subject	Women -- Labor Education Families Travel
Broader Subject	Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century Plantation life -- Southern States -- History Confederate States of America
Description	Roxana writes of her recent trip north to Chicopee, MA; her husband's favorable impression of the north, especially ladies who work; return home; visiting Waverly, MS; complains of their sister Lucy Chapin not helping with household work enough; and she talks a bit about starting her school
Note	A.L.S. (4 p.)
Type	text;
Original Format	correspondence
Original Collection	Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection
Collection Finding Aid	http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00683/
ASERL URL	www.american-south.org
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Citation	Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Rights	This item is free from copyright and may be reproduced without prior consent.

Title	gerdine_15_01
Transcript	A.L.S. November 29 [between 1860-1862]. �Your sister� [Roxana Chapin Gerdine] to �Dear Sister� [Emily McKinstry Chapin]. West Point, [MS]. 4pp.) West Point Nov. 29th" Dear Sister-" I am really mortified that you have waited so long for a letter from me and when in reading your letter I came to [claim] �I hope you have adhered to your resolution to keep quiet� my conscience hurt me as that is the very thing you know I have not done. I declare I sometimes think I am nearly a fool but the amount of work that had accumulated for me to cut and prepare obliged me to keep up and I have broken down two or three times but now I am up and all right. I have a seamstress and Mary & Lizzie assist me a great deal. I have got them fitted up very nicely for the winter. Lucy has so much always to do for herself that she does not help me
ASERL URL	www.american-south.org
Rights	This item is free from copyright and may be reproduced without prior consent.

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