Letter to HAR from V.C. Aiken

Archive

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Letter to HAR from V.C. Aiken

Entry/Object ID

2009.016.1r

Scope and Content

Letter to Mrs. Burnet from V.C.(?) Aiken. Envelope is addressed to her in care of Mr. ---andale, Mansion House, Greenville, SC. Transcription: Condnacca(?) Mar. 22 [18]65 Dear Mrs. Rhett I received your letter on Friday last & only defered [sic] writing this evng [sic] that I might hear positively from Mr. Aiken (who only returned today) if the sad news of Hugh's death could be so, we had heard the rumor, & I am sorry to tell you he confirms the news. He was killed in a skirmish on Lynch Creek. Ladies procured his body & gave it a christian burial, in a churchyard, all of which is very comforting. But poor Mary what must her grief be, she is completely heartbroken. What a loss to his family & indeed to the Confederacy. Sister is with me, she wrote you a long letter in reply to your first to me. You should have got it before your last was written. She leaves on Tuesday next with Mr. Aiken for Wims(?). He goes again with supplies. Sis hoped to have met you here & I hope you have already made your plans to pay me an early visit. I will take no denial. Sister encloses a letter from Sister Ellen & would write herself but feels too miserably. Do write immediately when you are coming & direct to Greenwood, Abbeville, Dist. That is our post office but we live seven miles from there. The mails are very irregular so you must give one several days to get your letter so that I may send to meet you. Sister & Mr. Aiken beg to be affectionately remembered to you. I close hoping to meet you at an early day. Yours truly & sincerely, V.C. Aiken Envelope: Mrs. Burnet Rhett care Mr. ------dale Mansion House Greenville, S.C.

Collection

Aiken-Rhett House

Acquisition

Accession

2009.016.

Source or Donor

Maybank, Thomas

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Maybank

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Letter

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Correspondence, Personal Papers, Rhett, Henrietta Aiken--Correspondence, Aiken-Rhett family, Aiken-Rhett family--Correspondence

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1865

Archive Size/Extent

1 page, 1 envelope

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: Mar. 22, 1865 Level of Description: Item

Location

Location

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Rhett, Henrietta Aiken

General Notes

Note

Notes: Transcribed by Karen Emmons, Nov. 2009.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 4, 2009

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

May 24, 2023