[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, July 23, 1808 or 1809]

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Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her Husband Littleton Dennis Teackle. She expresses her love for his calm mind in the face of business adversity and wishes for prosperous times ahead for them. She asks him to thank William Gilmor for his invitation to town, but to let him know she cannot attend.

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Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur [1808-07-23, 1809-07-23].

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Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her Husband Littleton Dennis Teackle. She expresses her love for his calm mind in the face of business adversity and wishes for prosperous times ahead for them. She asks him to thank William Gilmor for his invitation to town, but to let him know she cannot attend.

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  • Accession or Local Control No: 2338-01-0049
  • Call Number: MSS 2338, 2338-a, 2338-b Box 1
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1677144

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  • Preferred Citation: Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968, Accession #2338, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

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Voices of the Eastern Shore

The Voices of the Eastern Shore collection features archival materials such as letters, accounting ledgers and legal documents from the Somerset County Historical Society and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia that focus on life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia from 1796 to about 1837.

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  • [1808-07-23, 1809-07-23]

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  • April 23, 2024, 9:57 p.m.

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Teackle, Elizabeth Uphsur. [Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, July 23, 1808 or 1809], letter, [1808-07-23, 1809-07-23]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1677144/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

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