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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC03523.21.58 |
From Archive Folder | Letters to Assistant Surgeon Henry F. McSherry of the U.S. Navy |
Title | Anna McSherry to Henry F. McSherry regarding the family's poor financial situation |
Date | 4 June 1866 |
Author | McSherry, Anna (b. 1833) |
Recipient | McSherry, Henry F. |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Written by Anna to her brother Henry. Is upset that he does not write more often. Says "I have no one else but you to look to. Pa often tells me he is old and is not able to work as he once did, and cannot live much longer." Goes on to say "you know we we are not well off and tho' I have tried to keep things comfortable as I could on small means we have had to live very, very plainly." Says their father is practicing medicine less because he is pushed aside by the younger members of the profession. Claims their father has 7,000 dollars in government bonds, but that he won't cash them or buy land with them out of fear of being taxed. Says she did not want him to leave the navy and live with them in Martinsburg. Goes on to praise his talents. |
Subjects | Surgeon Woman Author Women's History Children and Family Death Finance Health and Medical Government and Civics Taxes or Taxation Land Transaction |
People | McSherry, Anna (b. 1833) McSherry, Henry F. (b. 1837) |
Place written | Martinsburg, West Virginia |
Theme | Naval & Maritime |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Sister |
Civil War: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |