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    Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782
    Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782
    Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782
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    Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

    By Lucinda Lee Orr

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 - Lucinda Lee Orr

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      Title: Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782

      Author: Lucinda Lee Orr

      Release Date: September 1, 2007 [eBook #22487]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOURNAL OF A YOUNG LADY OF VIRGINIA, 1782***

      E-text prepared by Susan Skinner, Julia Miller,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

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      Journal

      OF A

      Young Lady of Virginia

      1782.

      Printed and Published

      For the Benefit of the Lee Memorial Association of Richmond,

      By John Murphy and Company,

      No. 182 Baltimore Street,

      BALTIMORE.

      1871.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

      EMILY V. MASON,

      in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

      The following pages contain a fragment of the Journal of a young lady of Virginia of the last century.

      It seems to have been written by her while on a visit to her relatives, the Lees, Washingtons, and other families of Lower Virginia, mentioned in her Journal.

      The friend for whom it was intended was Miss Polly Brent, also of Virginia.

      The manuscript was found torn, and discolored by age, in an old desk at the country place in Maryland, to which Polly Brent carried it, upon her marriage into one of the old families of that State.

      The Lees, of whom so much mention is made in the Journal—Nancy, Molly, Hannah, and Harriet—were the daughters of Richard Henry Lee, of Chantilly. Molly married W. A. Washington, and Hannah was—at the time of the Journal—the wife of Corbin Washington. Their grandson, John A. Washington, was the last occupant of Mount Vernon.

      Harriet married the son of Mrs. Turberville, the old lady spoken of in the manuscript.

      Ludwell Lee, a son of Richard Henry Lee, married the Flora of this chronicle. She was a daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee, of Stratford, and sister of Matilda Lee, the first wife of Colonel Henry Lee; whose little boy is mentioned as so fine a child. Colonel Henry Lee was none other than Light-horse Harry; the little boy, his eldest son Henry, half-brother to General Robert E. Lee.

      It is believed the publication of this Journal will be well received, at a period when everything relating to the family of General Lee is of peculiar interest. It presents, also, a curious picture of the life and manners of that day.

      There will be found in it many errors, and some antiquities of orthography, which it has not been deemed

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