Charles Woodbury to Laughton (34 items), 1854-1860

File — Box: 1

Identifier: ER-4461

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Scope and Contents

The correspondence begins July 14, 1854 and continues until 1860, the year Lily’s engagement to Berghmans was announced. Woodbury was a N.H. and Boston lawyer, son of noted jurist Levi W. (b. 1791). He was about 15 years Lily’s senior. He courted her and proposed marriage in 1854. Was refused. His letters are generally witty, occasionally referring to the rejected lover. Alludes to mutual friends, politics, travels, practice of law, society in Boston, Newport, D.C., Philadelphia.

Dates

1854-1860

Creator

From the Sub-Series: Blanding, Magdalen Gordon, 1823-1885 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Chace, Abby Wheaton Pearce (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Comegys, Harriet Clayton, 1840-1927 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 1816-1875 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Halsted, Nancy Marsh, 1817-1891 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Schuyler, Mary Morris Hamilton, 1818-1877 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Harper, Emily L. (Emily Louisa), 1812-1892 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Johnson, Christie (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Mitchell, Martha Reed, 1818-1902 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Sweat, Margaret J.M. (Margaret Jane Mussey), 1823-1908 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Walker, Letitia Morehead, 1823-1908 (Person)
From the Sub-Series: Washington, Ella Bassett, 1834-1898 (Person)

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