The Family Letters
A Portrait of an American
Family Though Letters
From the 18th and 20th
Century

Edited by: John T. B. Mudge

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Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
I. An Annotated Genealogy	1
II. 1777–1838 p Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee	19
III. 1806–1860 p Virginia, Henry A. Wise and His family	39
IV. 1835–1844 p Early Papers from Cambridge, New York	79
V. 1844–1850 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part One	95
VI. 1851–1854 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part Two	153
VII. 1855–1859 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part Three	185
VIII. 1860–1861 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part Four	231
IX. 1860–1865 p Life in Virginia	259
X. 1862–1869 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part Five	319
XI. 1866–1876 p Virginia	345
XII. 1870–1877 p Letters from Cambridge and Troy, Part Six	379
XIII. 1878–1880 p The Thayer Family in Colorado	429
XIV. The Summer of 1882 p Disease, Marriage, and Death	445
XV. The 1880s p A Young Lawyer Goes West	465
XVI. 1887, Part One p A Very Busy Year	503
XVII. 1887, Part Two p Henry Wise Hobson and the Mormon Church	561
XVIII. 1888–1889 p Colorado	583
XIX. 1890 p The Robert E. Lee Memorial	625
XX. 1890–1897 p A Growing Family in Denver	637
XXI. 1898, Part One p Henry W. Hobson and the Practice of Law	749
XXII. 1898, Part Two p August	809
XXIII. 1898–1916 p A Widow and Her Children	835
Appendices
Appendix A Timeline p Selected Dates in Family History	935
Appendix B Handwriting Samples	943
Appendix C Selected Portraits and Photographs	956
Appendix D Bibliography	960
Acknowledgments	963
Index	965