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BC 73

diligently and often sends a copy to her daughters. The
same was true of a church paper named The Olive Branch.
She has taught one of the slves to knit stockings and says
that they are being made very neat; but she cautions that
this is being done for the girls while they are in school and
too busy with obtaining an education to do their own work.
Ann gives lists of books she thinks will be good to read and
on one occasion even copies pages of advice from an
author to his daughters. In a few letters she comments on
what Marashall is doing, twice he is said to gone to a mill,
once at Beaver Creek and once to the mill at Leatherwood.
Only once is anything said about his looking at the crops, in
that instance she says that they ride out together to see the
tobacco plants, which "are growing finely."