Mary G. Davis Papers

Résumé du livre

Also includes 2 letters, 1841 and 1842, from classmate Louise McCaa; letter, 16 June 1841, Kirkwood (Camden, S.C.), to Davis (Monticello, S.C.), re weddings among the young and old, with more entertainments anticipated with the former than the latter; travels of mutual friends, including Mr. Prudhomme, who planned to live in Europe for four years; other topics discussed include McCaa's description of her daily routine of rising at 5 a.m. for two hours of horseback riding before breakfast, because she was "dying of ennui"; McCaa also reports the engagement of Mary Dunkin to Cleland Huger, and inquires if Davis intends to accompany her brother to the North this summer.