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 to her sister. My great-great-grandma is on the right:
I love the sisters’ hands and how they interlock and sweetly hold each other.
Those are beautiful.
absolute treasure.
I love this; what a beautiful image.
Speaking of beautiful images, I’ve been meaning to send you a thank you, on paper and everything, for the amazing tea bag shroud. It’s amazing. I feel so lucky to have won it! Many, many thanks.
Babblekarin
Hi Jill, Lisa, and Karin,
Thank you for all of the sweet comments:)
Karin,
I’m so happy to hear that you like the teabag:)
wow, what a box! i’m curious about what the wedding dress looks like. and how interesting it will be to read the letters!
i think i’ve looked for you email on your blog before and haven’t found it, so i’m going to thank you here for your very nice comments on my blog. you are generous. thanks for reading.
now i’m going to catch up on your latest posts.
What wonderful, wonderful finds… and such a beautiful image.
take care, g
What a cool process to make all the jewelry golden.
I would love to have something like this from my ancestors.
how many generations back does someone have to be to be an ancestor?
how about 3.
Those letters look lovely. Such treasures.