Letters, 1888-1898 (inclusive).

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Letters, 1888-1898 (inclusive).

Collection consists of ten autograph letters signed from Williams to her sister [-in-law?] Betty of Culpeper County, Va., describing her husband's health, the death of her mother, her daughter's bout with diphtheria, conflicts between her step-son Robert and husband, and her daily life.

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Williams, Adele Cutts,

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The daughter of Ellen O'Neale and James Madison Cutts, a Treasury Department official, and grandniece of Dolley Madison, Williams was born in Maryland into a prominent Catholic family, and educated at a church academy in Georgetown. In 1856 she married presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), senator from Illinois. Widowed, she married General Robert Williams (1829-1901), a prominent army officer, in 1866. Adele Williams is buried beside her second husband in Arlington National Cem...

Williams, Robert, 1829-1901

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Williams, Adele Cutts, 1835-1899.

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