- Collection:
- Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs, 1850-1867
- Title:
- Letter, Washington, Georgia to Julia [Ann DuBose Toombs], 1856 Mar. 14
- Creator:
- Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885
- Date of Original:
- 1856-03-14
- Subject:
- Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century
Domestic relations--Georgia
Toombs family - People:
- Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885--Trials, litigation, etc.
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883
Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885--Correspondence
Toombs, Julia Ann, 1830-1883--Correspondence - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- In this March 14, 1856 letter, Robert Toombs, representative in the Georgia House of Representatives (1837-1843), in the U.S. Congress (1845-1853) and Senate (1853-1861), describes his current court case and its annoyances and schedule. He then discusses the weather where he is, at home, versus the weather where his wife is, in Washington. Telling his wife of a dream he had of her, he offers lighthearted pleasantries to cheer her and himself. He speaks more of his court business, mentioning his friend [Alexander] Stephens, Pope, and Julia's brother James. He also assures her of the well-being of her sister Harriet (married to Robert Toombs's half-brother Lawrence Catlett Toombs) and family, and of the well-being of Toombs's brother Gabriel and family. He closes the letter with his usual affection for his wife and daughter Sallie.
Digital image and transcription of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO. - Local Identifier:
- rat009
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlrt/id:rat009
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_zlrt_rat009
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlrt_rat009/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Robert Toombs, letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 4 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Robert Toombs, letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Washington Geo. [Georgia] Mar. [March] 14th 1856
My Dear Julia ,
I received your very interesting letter of the llth Inst [Instant] this morning & it increased my anxiety to get away from here & back to see you -- I went to Greensboro yesterday morning to argue my Early case, but for which I would have remained a week longer in Washington & when I got There I found Mr Cone had complained the evening because of indisposition & inability to argue it & the court had continued the case & adjourned. It was a great vexation & annoyance to me, but it was without remedy, so I quietly took the down train at 2 o clock & came back home yesterday evening. I did not see Mr Dawson tho' [though] Judge D. was very very polite & insisted on my staying with him especially for dinner. I would have done so but for the fact that the cars arrived there 1/4 before 2. o clock The day was bad, very bad, cold & rainey [rainy] all day
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I was astonished to hear of the cold weather you write me of Washington -- Sunday, when you wrote it was snowing with you, was a beautifull [beautiful] day. I rode up to Elberton -- noticed that morning your flower garden full of beautiful flowers, the apricots beginning to bloom, & the peaches showing their red buds, & every thing [everything] exhibiting the loveliness of spring, This continued until yesterday when we had a very bad N. [North] Easten & last night was very cold & this morning clear, frosty & a plenty of ice. Last night was a very cold unpleasant night, & the only pleasant thing about was a dream I had about you -- That was very pleasant. I am very [deleted text: y] glad you you [you] are replying at least with acknowledgments to all the letters you can -- it will relieve me much when I get back, if you get any from my fair friends you must be sure to keep their secrets, you always say I can not [cannot] keep a secret, happy delusion! You dont [don't] know many strange ones I have got for I never tell them! I'll see if you
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can be as prudent especially if you should get me from a charming, handsome woman to whom I have been making love -- I have not heard from Stephens since I left, but I suppose he will be at Columbia Court as [deleted text: I have written] he has not written I shall go [word omission in text: to ] Columbia Sunday, but hope to get away by Wednesday as I am very busy here. For the first time in my life I have business in Court of my own , that is where I am a party, Mr Pope & the Bank of the State of Georgia have given me a year or two's work on my own account -- If I live I will make the last named party repent of it I saw your brother James to day [today] -- all well except his boy (the youngest) broke a small bone of his arm the other day. Your sister & family all well Gabe & family all well -- Give my best love to Sallie & kiss her for me. I have no heart to talk of her mother -- I send you a thousand kisses, & would give all them for one real kiss to day [today] --
As ever yours truly
[Signed] Toombs
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Mr
R Toombs
U.S.S. [United States Senate]
Mrs Julia A Toombs
Care of Jno S Pendleton Esq
Culpepper CTS[Court house]
Virginia