1858-01-31: Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, Letter
This document is a letter from Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 31, 1858 . The letter mentions a financial panic that has caused the writer's father to lose money. The Fitzpatrick family emigrated from Ireland to the Virginia colony in...
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1858-01-31: Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, Letter |
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This document is a letter from Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 31, 1858 . The letter mentions a financial panic that has caused the writer's father to lose money. The Fitzpatrick family emigrated from Ireland to the Virginia colony in the early 1700s. Over time, the family moved from Virginia through the Carolinas and into Georgia before finally settling in Line Creek, Alabama and Verbena, Alabama. Several members of the family were active politically including William Fitzpatrick, who served in the Georgia legislature, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who served two terms as governor of Alabama. Sarah Fitzpatrick, a descendant of this family, married Columbus White Mitchell who was from a prominent Alabama family. The couple had ten children, seven of whom survived infancy. Three of their sons served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy (Phil F. Mitchell, Joseph A. Mitchell, and Columbus White Mitchell). Their daughter Mary Louisa, a central figure of this collection, married Dr. Samuel "Trinley" Thomas Williamson in September 1861 shortly after the war began. Williamson was a medical doctor who also fought in the Confederate armed forces. With Williamson and the three Mitchell brothers away fighting, Mary Louisa was left home to run the household with only the help of her sick mother and her sisters. At this time she was also pregnant with her first child who was born in 1862. All three brothers and Williamson survived the war. The family continued to live in Alabama following the Civil War. Since the mid-1900s, some branches of the family have spread out while some continue to live in Alabama. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project. |
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1858-01-31: Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, LetterThis document is a letter from Carrie Lambert to Mary Louisa Mitchell Williamson, written from Brooklyn, N.Y., on January 31, 1858 . The letter mentions a financial panic that has caused the writer's father to lose money. The Fitzpatrick family emigrated from Ireland to the Virginia colony in the early 1700s. Over time, the family moved from Virginia through the Carolinas and into Georgia before finally settling in Line Creek, Alabama and Verbena, Alabama. Several members of the family were active politically including William Fitzpatrick, who served in the Georgia legislature, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who served two terms as governor of Alabama. Sarah Fitzpatrick, a descendant of this family, married Columbus White Mitchell who was from a prominent Alabama family. The couple had ten children, seven of whom survived infancy. Three of their sons served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy (Phil F. Mitchell, Joseph A. Mitchell, and Columbus White Mitchell). Their daughter Mary Louisa, a central figure of this collection, married Dr. Samuel "Trinley" Thomas Williamson in September 1861 shortly after the war began. Williamson was a medical doctor who also fought in the Confederate armed forces. With Williamson and the three Mitchell brothers away fighting, Mary Louisa was left home to run the household with only the help of her sick mother and her sisters. At this time she was also pregnant with her first child who was born in 1862. All three brothers and Williamson survived the war. The family continued to live in Alabama following the Civil War. Since the mid-1900s, some branches of the family have spread out while some continue to live in Alabama. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project. [page 1]
Brooklyn. Jan. 31, 1858
My dear Cousin Lou,
Your highly prized letter
received some weeks since lies
before me, & I have to beg your
pardon, for so long neglecting to
reply to it. I must plead that
old excuse "want of time" and if
you had ever lived in a city
like this you would appreciate
it to its fullest extent
Lou will forgive me I know with-
out my wasting more of my time
in writing, or yours in reading
a lengthy apology. Lou will
know, that if it had been
practicable, I should have written
[page 2]
to you sooner, from selfish
motives, if no other, knowing I
should receive no more of your sweet
letters until I had.
Have you seen Dr. [Duford ?] again
that you wrote me about. or have
you forgotten him before this.
Dear Cousin Lou, I am afraid you
are a little bit of a flirt are you
not.
It was music to me
to read that you had missed me,
& thought of me often. I cannot
tell you how often & how lovingly
I think of the warm hearted friends
I hope that I have at Line Creek
Their kindness to me "a stranger
in a strange land" will never
be forgotten. Would that I could
do something in return for it all
they have my deepest gratitude
& love more it is not in my
power to give now
[page 3]
No Cousin Lou I did not allow
what I heard to trouble me but
a moment. I do believe that you
love me and if you said anything
about me - against me I mean -
you may have been speaking of
some of my faults (& of course I
have faults) to some one whom you
considered as much my friend as
yourself - and that I do not
consider at all inconsistent with
[this ?] friendship. we will not
think any more about it.
It seems so long since I
have heard from you all. I can
think of forty questions I could
ask but you must tell me all
about everybody, without my
asking them.
Do you know of any situation
I can fill at the South next fall?
[page 4]
If you hear of any you must let
me know. I suppose I shall go
South somewhere in the fall & I should
like to be in your neighborhood.
The "Panic" in money matters
this last year has rendered what I
did from a whim before, almost a
necessity now. as father was not
one of the few fortunate ones who
escaped from the general crush
scathless.
Write to me very soon my dear
Cousin Remember me with much
love to your Mother & brother.
Give my love to Cousin Fannie
I shall write to her very soon.
Remember me to all inquiring
friends and believe me
Ever yours truly
Carrie Lambert
[page 5]
[envelope front]
[stamp and postmark have been torn off envelope]
Miss M. L. Mitchell
Care of Phillips Mitchell Esq
Line Creek
Montgomery Co.
Ala.1858-01-31Lambert, CarrieMitchell Family; Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century; Letters; Peoples -- Domestic Life; History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction;Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States1858-01-31Fitzpatrick-Mitchell-Williamson Family Papers, 1850-1989, Auburn University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Auburn University, Auburn, AlabamaRecord Group 1223, Fitzpatrick-Mitchell-Williamson Papers, Folder 95 pages, 21 cmengAuburn, Ala. : Auburn University LibrariesThis image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of this image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.Stillimage; Text;1858-01-31_LambertC_to_WilliamsonMLM_letter.pdfapplication/pdfDeeply RootedAuburn University Librarieshttp://cdm17353.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/fmw01/id/26 |