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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03523.32.43 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Sumner Sayles, H company, 95th regiment, Illinois, infantry |
| Title | Mary Braithwaite to Isora Sayles Skinkle discussing a wedding and her health |
| Date | 27 January 1867 |
| Author | Braithwaite, Mary (fl. 1860-1867) |
| Recipient | Skinkle, Isora Sayles |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Informs her of Emma's wedding. Discusses the wedding and all the festivities around the wedding. Describes her ordeal with typhoid fever. Writes that she was bed ridden for the first three years and so sick that every day everyone expected her to pass away. Notes that this last year has been much better and that she has only been sick for a few weeks at a time. Request that she writes her back with the latest news on all of her old friends. The city listed in the letter is Middlefield; state is not given. |
| Subjects | Woman Author Women's History Disease Health and Medical Typhoid Fever Marriage |
| People | Braithwaite, Mary (fl. 1860-1867) Skinkle, Isora fl. 1860-1868) |
| Place written | s.l. |
| Theme | Health & Medicine; Children & Family; Women in American History |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Unit | 95th Regiment, Illinois, infantry |