1 50 1 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/638d453058311a99e2d6accac8dc2de7.jpg b7f66fd8692108b182491c7e137050ad PDF Text Text [Left side] Postmark: Harrisonburg, VA Sep 21 Mr Joseph [Hyle?] In Catawba Near Fincastle Va [Right side] Near Harrisonburg Sept 18th, 1844 Cousin Joseph I rec’d yours a few days since informing me you had read a letter from [Mr Dormand?] of land [saying?]. I had told him you had [slandered?] him. You wish to know how it hapened that I mentioned your named inspecting [Mr Loflands?] talking about [mr] as you recollect no doubt I told you when you ware here that I did not go to uncles House because of his bein g in the habit of useing my name too freely. nor have I been at his House since nor have I spoken to him since because I have not met with [?] is the reason I have not spoken to him. if I had met with him I might have spoken to him because of his wife being my own Aunt. now I will inform you how it hapened your name was mentioned attall. [Sony?] + Harvey Lofland had frequently asked me to go to there gathers and I had to the boys made different excuses for not joining at [length] on some publick occasions in [Town] Harvey asked me why I did not come & see his father. The old man had been sick I [later?] ex plained to him I would have been pleased to go to see him but that he had been in the habit of speaking unkindly of me to my relatives that called at his House he sayed he did not https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/0c8436c635036d64c3a7a711897a81f1.jpg 75f847d004e776a2f5cbbbe0853d6d45 PDF Text Text [Left side] believe his father had ever spoken so of me and asked me to whom. he had spoken to [and?] without [inflicting?] observed to you for [one] but did not say any particular thing he had said to you about me. because you did not say what he did say but you observed that he had spoken unfavorably of me and of Major Smith. I am fully satisfied in my mind that Mr [Lofland?] has purr sued this cause towards me. [If?] I have to judge from no other circumstances than this. that any relation [Robert Pitzer?] his son in law before his marriage was in the habit of calling at my [House] and I acted the part of friend to him and [sine?] his marriage though he has been invited he has never crossed my Door had he not been prejudice against me shared by Robert Pitzer would not have broken off his friendships and duty from one who has been the friend of his mothers family As to this matter as Mr Lofland [seems] to take the [third?] very unkindly I will inform him when I see him or one of his sons. That he has behave badly towards me by [interfering?] when I had sold a young negroe girl that I raised to one of his nearest neighbors. The [gentle?] informs me he called this House a short time [Right side] after he had purchases the girl and told his the gentlemans wife [that?] he would not have the girl as a gift that she was not worth any thing the girl he [?] not and the reason that [I raised] and was a perfectly [?]. I find I think when I inform him of this he will not likely think so hard of my only saying he had used my name too freely to my relatives I believe the principle reason why I did mention your name being you are a connect tion is this. When [the?] Torills children named in this [?] last spring or fall they [named] think a week at old Loflands and did come to see either your Cousin Davids fam ily or mine I went with Harvey Lofland at Church and [Mr. Torills?] son was with him. I did not know him. he stood within [?] length of me while I talked to Harvey and he did not even mention his name to me s- judging from all things as they appeared [to me] Mr Loflands must have—prejudiced any [relatives] against us. My respects to Uncle Robt and his family and to grandfathers family Yours Respectfully Robert M [Shyle?] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Southwest Virginia Counties Collection (Ms2000-092) Subject The topic of the resource History of Food and Drink Local/Regional History and Appalachian South Description An account of the resource The collection includes letters from various members of the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties establishes the relationship between them. In addition to correspondence, the collection also contains deeds, promissory notes, invoices for goods and services, toll bridge fee receipt, a child's watercolor, 13 pen and ink drawings of weaver's coverlet designs with titles of designs included. The collection also contains five bound leather volumes include accounts and recipes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Figgat, Nancy Godwin Godwin, Ann Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00640.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Southwest Virginia Counties Collection.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1783/1878 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Permission to publish material from Southwest Virginia Counties Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2000_092_SWVACounties Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2000-092_F05_1844-1878_Letter_1844_0918a Title A name given to the resource Robert [Hoyle?] Letter, Sept. 18, 1844 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hoyle, Robert Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1844-09-18 Description An account of the resource Letter from Robert [Hoyle?] near Harrisonburg, Virginia, to cousin Joseph [Hoyle?]. Language A language of the resource English Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Ms2000-092, Box 1, Folder 5 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/</a> Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [identification of item], [box and folder number], Southwest Virginia Counties Collection, Ms2000-092, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://aspace.lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/resources/2132" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://aspace.lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/resources/2132</a> archived