From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair

Details
Title

From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair

Creator

Florella Brown Adair

Description

This letter was written on August 19, 1860 by Florella Brown Adair in Grafton, Ohio, to her husband Samuel Lyle Adair and daughter Emma Adair. Florella describes her journey to Grafton via boat and train with her son Charles and daughter Ada. She says there will soon be a great gathering in Oberlin but expresses reluctance to attend: “I have been so long away from such refined & stilish society that I feel a shrinking from it. Marian thinks I have grown old very fast.”

Date

August 19, 1860

Local Subject

Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement
Women

People

Florella Brown Adair

Geographic Subject

Atchison, Kansas
Atchison County, Kansas
Buchanan County, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Jackson County, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri
Miami County, Kansas

Owning Organization

Kansas Historical Society

Location

Samuel Lyle & Florella Brown Adair Family Collection, Box 1: Folder 3

Rights

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