Hubert C. and Laura Tupper Brown letters, 1863-1886.

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Brown, Hubert C. Hubert C. and Laura Tupper Brown letters, 1863-1886.

Hubert C. and Laura Tupper Brown letters, 1863-1886.

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The bulk of the letters are addressed to Laura Brown, though the collection also includes several from Hubert's brother, Joseph, who served in an Iowa Regiment during the Civil War. In March 1865, Joseph's daughter, Nettie Brown wrote from Angelo, Wisconsin that her father had enlisted in the 4th Iowa Independent Light Artillery to avoid the draft and because he could not afford "to hire a man." Joseph wrote from New Orleans in May and June 1865 at the end of the Civil War. The collection also includes numerous letters from relatives, including many from Laura's sisters, Julia and Josephine, and her cousin, Alanson L. Tupper. There are also several letters written to Laura in French by her former teacher at the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, St. Cesaire, Quebec, Sister Mary St. Charles. In a series of letters between 1865 and 1869 to Laura Brown, Mary E. Girard,a school friend, described her employment in a dressmaker's shop in Hartford, Connecticut and in the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills. Mary planned to work two years and wrote that "I can not content myself in any place unless I am making money." Mary eventually married Joseph Kelley and they bought a farm in Brownington, Vermont.

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Vermont Historical Society