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[Letter from Ann Upshur Eyre to her sister, Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, September 22, 1806]

Description: Letter from Ann Upshur Eyre to her sister, Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written from Eyre Hall, discussing a party of the Taylors coming from Norfolk, along with Robert Barraud Taylor, a Mr. Tilghman, Mr. Morris, and Mr. Jones. Also mentioned are Grace Duncombe Taylor, Retta Teackle of Easton, and John Eyre. The last page(s) of the letter are missing.
Date: September 22, 1806
Creator: Eyre, Ann Upshur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, January 31, 1807]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle from her father-in-laws house, Kegotank. She speaks about one of their enslaved people, Martha, a washerwoman, delivering a stillbirth baby. She brings up his recent contract to provide lumber for the building of the new U.S. Navy Yard. Their brother-in-law Charles Nicoll Bancker invited the John Teackle family to Baltimore as a change of scenery after the death of one of the Teackle sons, Henry. She asks if he h… more
Date: January 31, 1807
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, April 27, 1807]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, in which she speaks of missing him. She says that their enslaved man, Israel is attending to all his wishes. She mentions that the sacrament was administered at church by Mr. Wilmer, and she asks for a delivery of cranberries, molasses, green sweetmeats, preserved ginger and lemons.
Date: April 27, 1807
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband Littleton D. Teackle, November 17, 1807]

Description: Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, detailing delays in her journey home. She stopped at Dr. Winder's due to a lame horse, and is slowly making her way home. She's heard that a schooner matching the description of one of their boats, the Princess Anne, was seen in the Wicomico river, returning from the West Indies. She says she recently wrote him by Robert Barraud Taylor, who was to post it in the Western Shore mail. She says Grace D. Taylor Eyre just had … more
Date: November 17, 1807
Creator: Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

[Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, December 25, 1815]

Description: Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle on Christmas Day. He writes of the death of his mother, Marion Muirhead Campbell. He tells about how he could not miss the chance to celebrate Wellington's victory in Paris after the Battle of Waterloos, so he dashed over in a boat so he did not miss witnessing it. After Paris, he went the Netherlands, passing a day on the "Bloody field of Waterloo," then journeying to Holland, seeing, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and the Hague.
Date: December 25, 1815
Creator: Campbell, Andrew Donaldson
Partner: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
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