Letter of Lucy Nelson Randolph, February 23, 1881 : to her niece, Kate
1881
MSS L2014G95
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Title
Letter of Lucy Nelson Randolph, February 23, 1881 : to her niece, Kate
Published
[Virginia?] 1881
Description
7 folded sheets ; 23 cm. + envelope.
Call Number
MSS L2014G95
Note
Written in pencil on seven folded sheets of lined paper.
Includes an extensive genealogy and anecdotal history of the Nelson family and discusses the current centennial celebrations of the Yorktown victory.
Also author mentions that their relative Tom (Thomas Nelson) Page is writing a history of the Nelson family for Scribner and she writes: "I wish he, or some one could put in strong contrast, the treatment received by the Patriots who achieved this surrender, or helped greatly (at their birth place) & the present ridiculous furor about the centennial of that event"; discusses how the personal sacrifices of their collateral ancestor General Thomas Nelson, commander of the Virginia state troops, had an impact on the economic welfare of their family: "My grandfather & your great grandfather, Col. William Nelson, was the first Cousin of General Nelson & one of his securities for the large debt incurred for his Country - for which, a great deal of his property was sacrificed, & so much of General Nelson’s & to think of this farcical celebration of the surrender at York Town & the monument to be erected, & the rejoicing by those, who, many of them, have no ancestral interest in the grand result while the families of those who contributed largely have been impoverished & a deaf ear turned to every representation of the Country’s indebtedness to her dead Patriots ..."
Includes an extensive genealogy and anecdotal history of the Nelson family and discusses the current centennial celebrations of the Yorktown victory.
Also author mentions that their relative Tom (Thomas Nelson) Page is writing a history of the Nelson family for Scribner and she writes: "I wish he, or some one could put in strong contrast, the treatment received by the Patriots who achieved this surrender, or helped greatly (at their birth place) & the present ridiculous furor about the centennial of that event"; discusses how the personal sacrifices of their collateral ancestor General Thomas Nelson, commander of the Virginia state troops, had an impact on the economic welfare of their family: "My grandfather & your great grandfather, Col. William Nelson, was the first Cousin of General Nelson & one of his securities for the large debt incurred for his Country - for which, a great deal of his property was sacrificed, & so much of General Nelson’s & to think of this farcical celebration of the surrender at York Town & the monument to be erected, & the rejoicing by those, who, many of them, have no ancestral interest in the grand result while the families of those who contributed largely have been impoverished & a deaf ear turned to every representation of the Country’s indebtedness to her dead Patriots ..."
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