United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Cobb, Marion, 1822-18971852-07Letter from July 1852 from Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Read Rootes Cobb and daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, to Callie King, wife of Porter King and Marion's sister, about events in Athens including the University of Georgia's upcoming commencement. Marion's husband, T.R.R. Cobb, and her father are in Americus at a legal meeting. Marion reports on the death of one of university president Alonzo Church's sons-in-laws, a Col. Craig, and touches upon the health of Col. Cobb.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO.image/jpegjhl0014http://american-south.org/http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Joseph Henry Lumpkin family papers, 1821-1862 (bulk 1852-1857), box 1, folder 14, document jhl0014.Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs--19th centuryDomestic lifeLawyers--GeorgiaUniversity of GeorgiaCommencement ceremonies--Georgia--AthensCobb familyCobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867Church, Alonzo, 1793-1862King, Callie, 1826-1905Letter: to Callie [King], 1852 July [no day]Text