Letter from Emma Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, June 26, 1862
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- Title:
- Letter from Emma Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, June 26, 1862
- Date:
- 1862
- Creator (Personal):
- Alston, Emma, 1803-1889
- Description:
- A handwritten, four-page letter from Emma Alston to her husband, Charles, in which she discusses the possibility for illness, specifically typhus fever, spreading in crowded South Carolina cities. In addition, she expresses her wartime fears and advises him on the management of enslaved people. Attached to this letter is a note requesting that he bring books on farming to Greenville. On the front of the envelope, a list of items is written; on the back, a list of names of enslaved people is written.
- Collection Title:
- Edmondston-Alston Family Letters and Paper Materials, 1782-1919
- Contributing Institution:
- Middleton Place Foundation
- Media Type:
- Manuscripts
- Series:
- Edmondston-Alston House Museum Collections
- Topical Subject:
- Slavery, Enslaved persons, and Typhus fever
- Geographic Subject:
- Columbia (S.C.), Greenville (S.C.), and United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
- S.C. County:
- Greenville County (S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- EAH Box 1
- Date Digital:
- 2023
- Digitization Specifications:
- 400 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Public Domain.
- Access Information:
- For more information, contact the Middleton Place Foundation, 4300 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC 29414.
- Admin ID:
- 295484
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