Summary
ALS
4 pp.
August 08, 1866
Letter from Charles Daved Brand (with addendum from C.F. Moseley) to
William Francis Brand, August 12, 1866
Charles David Brand writes to his brother W.F. Brand: “Will you said
something about being an old grayheaded bachelor if you will come over on this
side of the Ridge [Blue Ridge Mountains] where love & beauty reign I
think you could find some old widdow that would sympathize with your in your
troubles”; accuses him of badly treating Kate [Amanda C. Armentrout]
and adivses him not to marry her; describes “a grand
memorial” held at the Buckingham Female Institute [1 August 1866]
attended by 500 persons, “about two-thirds of that number lovely fair
sex . . . I could hardly keep from fallin in love with some of them”;
mentions a recent visit to Scottsville; attached to this is a letter containing
general news and comments from the Brand brothers' uncle C.F. Moseley [Charles
Floyd Moseley?] to his nephew William