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Anderson-Reavis Correspondence

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Document Type: Autograph Document

Author: Leroy H. Anderson
Date: [October 27, 1862]
Place: Aiken, South Carolina
To: Mary Reavis

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 1 page (22 x 13 cm) on one sheet

Number: MSN/CW 5004-5

Transcribed by: Paul Patterson and George Rugg, 2003-04, 2006


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Dressing gown in press -- red flan shirts, thick drawers if any, worsted & woollen socks, thick black coat 2 pr of best pants (to cut up to make a cap &c) (none very good) black homespun vest, pr. Ind rub'r boots, JR shoes if any good, 1 bot quinine -- Manuscript book marked "Records" (on shelf in my room. The prayerbook mother used at church -- square red prayer book Book of "Proper Lessons". 1 Little Episcopalian -- 1 Bettie Melinda Hue's travels in china -- mother's pictures -- photographs of self on card -- San Antonio Missions (on photographic card.) Copy Curry [i.e., Dr. Richard O. Currey] & Maury's Report on Alleghany Mines napkin ring & 2 napkins. Clair's Silver Cup -- Silver fork & tea & table spoon. Some candles, 1 bot muscatine wine -- 1 black berry do. also grey underjacket unburnt sleeves Package proceedings Ala state Med Association (4 pamplets tied up together in newspaper on large bookshelf -- phrenological chart, &c of self if you can see them. Bishop Lay's tracts for Mitty use. The surgical Instruments Dr. June sent me last year in top part of writing desk in my room. box Ind rubber paste, & any sheet Ind rubber you may see thick or thin, about the room -- one or two pair finest knit cotton socks in drawers in my room. quite a modest list -- you see I don't scruple to give you trouble. If any thing has to be left out let it be the wine

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Memorandum

 
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