Papers of the McDowell family, 1700, 1831-1917.

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Papers of the McDowell family, 1700, 1831-1917.

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The letters of Sally Prreston Campbell McDowell thomas Miller and the Reverend John Miller form the largest part of the collection. These courtship letters discuss the reluctance of Mrs. McDowell, a divorceĢe, to marry Miller, and are largely filled with her religious doubts and ethical questions as to the propriety and morality of their marriage. The collection also contains an outline for "The two virtues" by Miller. Civil War notes and 1889 unfinished memoirs of Charles Scott Venable, aide de camp to Robert E. Lee from the outbreak of the War through Anitetam, contain many anecdotes of the war. Venable's narrative is supplemented by Francis P. Venable's 1917 memoir of his mother, Margaret Cantey McDowell Venable, which include many of his father's war letters as well as an account of the family at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia. The collection also contains transcripts of letters from Eliza Jaquelin Ambler Brent Carrington to Ann Ambler Fisher giving her thoughts on education and rrecalling life during the Revolution and her earliest memories of her brother-in-law John Marshall. A series of Baltimore city and county deeds, surveyors reports and land conveyances, 1700-1869, many of the Warner family, complete the collection.

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