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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1866-04-17 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 John C. Watkins Letters, Ms2009-071 Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Description An account of the resource This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John C. Watkins, 1842-1892 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00417.xml">John C. Watkins Letters, 1862-1870</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-1870 Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). This collection was donated to Special Collections in 2009. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mdb Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permission to publish material from the John C. Watkins Letters must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech. Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Collection is open for research. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 0.1 cu. ft; 1 folder Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-071 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. <h2>Transcript</h2> Washington D.C. Apr. 17, 1866 Dear Home Friends Yours just received to day and I will not let it go so long again without writing, even if I do not receive a letter from home. My health is very good indeed though I have been a little unwell since Spring set in but feel nicely now. Geo. Fuller will probably leave here the last of this or the first of next week. He is going to practice in Mass somewhere I think. I shall not know what to do when he goes. I have been around with him so much. If he goes to practicing this summer he has invited me to come and stay a month at his house and I mean to go, perhaps. We are at present mutually interested in a beautiful lady from Baltimore though she is married and has two children she is quite a flirt. I like flirts after all for a girl usually has some spirit in her and is usually better able to entertain a man than one who does not try particularly so to do. I am afraid it will be a long time before I am married for I am so fickle not knowing more than a week at a time who I like and who not. Am glad you have a sewing machine think it will save you a deal of trouble and soon pay for itself. I know a lady who makes all her husbands clothes except the cutting and I think I shall have to let you do it for me when I get some more. Think I shall have to come home this Summer and learn how to run it and pay my own way while at home in that way. So you are having small pox in Lowell. There has been a great deal here in Washington but so far I've kept comparatively clear of it. I hope you will not have Cholera in Lowell this summer, but I am afraid we shall here. I have not yet decided whether to skedaddle or to stay and see it out. I have written to Mary and recd an answer to my letter and have written again Have not heard from Johnnie Calef yet. You recd Lizzie Calef's letter so you know all the news I hear she is quite a nice looking woman now. I think she must be rather pretty if childhoods looks promise anything for older age I will try and get some more flower seeds but dont know as I can. How soon before my clothes will be sent from Lowell and how much are they to cost? Every thing quiet here and I am just as quiet as everything else my life is very uneventful. But I must close for the present. Hoping to hear soon I am your affec Johnnie Who and what are the young ladies that room at our house. Are they pretty and how old and what do they do? Have the Hadley's moved yet Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper 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 Letter, John C. Watkins to Friends, Washington, DC, April 17, 1866 (Ms2009-071) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John C. Watkins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00417.xml" target="_blank">See the Finding Aid for the John C. Watkins Letters</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1866-04-17 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">Permission to publish material from the John C. Watkins Letters must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009_071_WatkinsJohnC_1866_0417 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: John C. Watkins Letters, Ms2009-071, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/" target="_blank">Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech</a>