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Letters/Documents
- Undated Valentines sent to Mary:
1. Valentine,
signed W.M, 1853
2. Unsigned
valentine #1
3. Unsigned
valentine #2
- Letter from Mary to Clara Alricks, April 4, 1864:
"You will be rather alarmed at the dimensions of this letter, but
I had decided to write to you this evening
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- Letter from Mary to Clara Alricks, June 8, 1864:
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- To Mary Alricks from Scott Robinson, a self-proclaimed "well-to-do
widower, not very old," asking her to write soon, as it would cheer
him. Written in verse, December 13, 1854.
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- To Mary Alricks from her friend, Nelly Marcy, July 14, 1853. Nelly
says she has taken a sheepskin, so she is a young lady now, not a schoolgirl.
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- To Mary McCormick from her friend Bertha, July 26, 1852:
Mary's friend Bertha declares that in Cape May, the "dancing and
bathing are the prominent pleasures of the place."
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To Mary Alricks from her friend Nelly Marcy. Nelly writes about improvements
in the city of Harrisburg, especially that of gas. Written sometime
in 1851.
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- To Mary Alricks from her friend Mary Buehler, 12/10, 1851. Mary congratulates
Mary on the arrival of her new sister, Rosanna, born 12/7, 1851, and
also passes along much gossip.
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- To Mary from her father Herman. Herman describes Mary's mother Fanny
as such: "as she neither talks nor eats anything, [she] makes a
very civil housekeeper."
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- Letter from Mary that is an excellent example of cross-writing --
a practice commonly used in Mary's day, in order to save paper.
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- Mary102751466.311.02 a, b, c, d
From Mary
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- 466.3.11.03a, b , c, d
From Mary
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- 466.311.04 a, b, c, d
begins: "Dear Lady Alricks, as Lizzie calls you..."
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- 466.3.11.07 a, b, c, d
from Mary to Mary Alricks
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- 466.3.11.09 a, b, c, d
From Nelly Marcy to Mary Alricks, chiding her to write, telling her
about her visit and her future plans to travel, letting her know about
her father's possible future stationing in New York, and sending love
to friends in Harrisburg.
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- 466.3.11.10 a, b, c, d
To Mary Alricks, from her friend Sue Spangler, dated June 25, 1853
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- 466.3.11.11 (one page only)
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- 466.3.11.13 a, b, c
To Mary Alricks from her friend Nelly Marcy, November 26: "never
did I feel more inclined to cry heartily
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- 466.3.11.15 a, b, c
To Mary Alricks from Nelly Marcy.
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- 466.3.11.17 a, b, c, d
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- 466.3.11.18 a, b, c, d
From Mary to her friend, Sue Spangler
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- 466.31.11.19 a, b, c, d
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- 466.3.11.20 a, b, c, d
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- 466.3.11.21 - 1 page
from Mary E. Alricks
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- 466.3.11.22
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- 466.3.11.23
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To Mary, from her friend, Sue Spangler
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- 466.3.11.24 a, b, c, d
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- 466.3.11.26 (1 sheet only)
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- 466.3.11.28 a, b, c
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- 466.3.11.29 a, b, c, d
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- 466.3.11.31 a, b, c
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