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Title
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Vest Family papers
Date
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1866-1887
Identifier
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MS1991.17
Description
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Correspondence of George S. Vest to Mary Garrett Vest, residents of Williamsburg’s Palmer
House on Duke of Gloucester Street, before and after their marriage. Also letters of William W. Vest
to Mary Garrett Vest Watkins after the death of George S. Vest and her remarriage. Letters concern
personal matters relating to courtship and daily events, with some scattered mention of Williamsburg.
Letters of William W. Vest concern the education of his grandsons George and Walter Vest (sons of
George S. Vest) at the Virginia Military Institute.
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12 items.
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<h5>Page 1</h5>
<p>Williamsburg July 28<sup>th</sup>/67</p>
<p>Dear Miss Mary</p>
<p>Forgive me for daring to<br />get sick, when you wished to<br />hear from me, and excuse thie<br />bad spirits caused thereby.</p>
<p>Your two sweet letters were<br />greatly enjoyed, as I could see<br />therein, from a kind and gentle<br />nature a true type of the<br />noble heart. Many bad<br />thoughts oppress me - and at<br />times I am weary of life. -<br />but when such dismal ideas<br />come, I seek comfort in your<br />kind words. They cause the<br />star of hope to continue burning,<br />although the dark clouds hover<br />threateningly.</p>
<p>As does music<br />tranquilize the soul - As does</p>
<h5>Page 2</h5>
<p>poetry refine the mind - As does <br />religion purify bothe, soothingly<br />comes from your kind expressions,<br />the blam for discontent.</p>
<p>My Sweet Sister Pattie, upon<br />whose gentle face, peace, love,<br />and holiness, lie blended, in<br />affections closest union ; begs<br />that you remember her sometimes,<br />and as a reminder, sends with<br />her love, a true picture of<br />happy marriage, and the<br />dearest wish of my heart is,<br />that the beautiful spirit of<br />her guardian angel, may hover<br />round you, and belong to you.</p>
<p>My dream you seem to<br />consider an idle effusionof<br />a weak mind. A Sentimental<br />affectation, or a moody, and<br />distorted idea, which had better<br />never been remembered - but<br />unfortunately it is remembered</p>
<h5>Page 3</h5>
<p>and though a dream, must<br />portend somehing. Sister Eliza<br />intends to write to you soon,<br />she has taken the wonderful<br />fancy of gazing long, and<br />earnestly at your beautiful<br />likeness, and thinks as she<br />turns it in various lights,<br />new charms may be discovered,<br />which were never seen before.<br />I disagree with her, and<br />think in the face of the<br />original, expressions play,<br />which art and science, can<br />never fully justify.</p>
<p>There is a misery in<br />physical pain, and there is<br />misery in mental pain, and<br />there is pain in life - but<br />the deepest of all miseries,<br />is the heart bowed down<br />with grief. But why</p>
<h5>Page 4</h5>
<p>should I speak of pain who -<br />know it not? I have some<br />secret sorrows child, which in<br />time will be revealed. Pain<br />is natural, and every man<br />must bear his burden.</p>
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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MS1991.17.6
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Vest, George S.
Title
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George S. Vest letter to Mary Garrett, 1867 July 28
Date
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1867-07-28