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Family

Four large boxes arrived from the family of my recently deceased great-aunt. Inside the boxes we found my great-grandmother’s wedding dress from the late nineteenth century, scrapbooks, photos, and stacks and stacks of letters dating from the 1890’s.
Here are a few of the letters:

My favorite is this daguerreotype of my great-great-grandma dated 1863 sitting next [...]