[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, December 24, 1813]
Mentioned in this letter
- Business, Economy, and Travel
- Banks - Bank of Somerset
- Education, Religion, Literacy, and Culture
- Books
- Enslavement, Manumission, and Free People of Color
- Enslavement - Enslaved people
- Historic Homes and Places
- Teackle Mansion
- Home, Health, and Social Life
- Beverages - Tea
- Fashion - Cloth - Spinning
- Fashion - Cloth - Weaving
- Food
- Food - Grains
- Food - Meat
- Holidays and Observances
- Home expenses
- Livestock
- Weaving
About this letter
- Description
- Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, giving him an update on daily ongoings back at their home. She writes about making cloth for the enslaved people of the household and her plans to go to Virginia. She says their daughter would like more books. She also lists goods for him to buy and send to her.
- Creator
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
- Creation Date
- December 24, 1813
- Subjects
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837
- Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
- Enslaved persons
- Item Type
- letter
- Identifier
- MSS 2338, 2338-a, 2338-b Box 1
- Publication Information
- Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968, Accession #2338, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Institution
- Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
- Collection
- Voices of the Eastern Shore
- Place Names
- United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne
- United States - Maryland - Anne Arundel County - Annapolis
Dec 24th, 1813. PA
My dear husband
As I am just leaving home to begin my circle of visits to Major C., General Gale and Mr Dennis’, I shall not be in town ‘till after Mail day. I have written today that a mail may not pass without your hearing from us.
Nothing has occurred since I wrote last, in answer to your several letters, one of which enclosed 50 dollars. I had at the time 70 on hand which I retain to purchase pork, altho’ none has as yet been offer’d for sale in town. The sellers are keeping it back for a higher price but I presume it may be had, after Christmas, cheap. I am very anxious to be off to Vir[gini]a but am unavoidably detained by my negroes cloth, which I have had difficulty in getting wove. As soon as I have my people clothed, I shall be off.
Elizabeth is quite delighted with the prospect of more books. She thanks you very much and has her library at home in neat order arranged in a quarter of our bookcase. She further begs you to think of her little birds and to send her some seed for them fearing her wintry stock may be exhausted before she can get supplied with more.
This is a letter of domestic affairs entirely. In fact, I have [page torn at bottom] for any other at present.
letter to Mr Campbell and shall enclose to Mr Bancker who I suppose knows Mr Jeffrey’s address. I shall request Mr B., in case Mr J. shou’d have left the U.S. to forward it by some other hand.
Please to purchase for me the following articles in B
50 lb. loaf sugar
do brown do
do buckwheat flour
10 lb. No 7 warp, spun cotton
10 lbs. do filling do
1 box mould candles
1 gallon of spirts of turpentine
1 lb. fine spun knitting cotton three threaded
1 bale (or half bale) raw cotton
2 lb. tea
I want the spun warp and filling cotton for a web. The raw cotton to keep my women employ’d this winter. As the raw cotton in town is every bad and very high priced. It wou’d be cheaper to get a bale and so sell out what we don’t want.
Send me good news of the Bank. I am truly interested concerning it. You must not mention what I wrote you to but mail, relative to the proceedings here on that business.
God bless you!
E.U.T.
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