Undated letters, approximately 1800s

Containers:

Box 2

Scope and content:

Undated assorted manuscript documents, including family letters; poems; correspondence related to the medical treatement of family members and enslaved women, including an enslaved woman named Jude; a hand sketched map of civil war battlelines near Atlanta; and correspondence regarding business and legal transactions. Also includes a document titled "An Address," which appears to have been written around 1787 for an eleventh anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence. The speech opens with reverence for the occasion before offering a more apprehensive reflection on the state of the nation due to "a general decay" of public faith in government and "a rapid increase of Luxury and [?] - a strong passion for foreign [?] and foreign vices - a general neglect of education and religion and the principal among the long catalouge [sic] of evils that have verged our country on to a crisis I now tremble to think of. Destitute of national virtue on the one hand and encouraging national vices on the other ruin can alon be expected forever..."

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