Box 4244.001

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains one hundred and thirty letters written from 1891 to 1895 by Sallie Hooper Morrow of Nashville, Tennessee, to her future husband, Thomas Ludlow Chrystie, while he was in New York City training to be a lawyer. The letters were written mostly from Nashville, as well as from Pulaski and Knoxville, Tennessee, and describe her daily activities, views on courting, and the habits of the household’s African-American servants. There are no envelopes. Chrystie generally wrote...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains one hundred and thirty letters written from 1891 to 1895 by Sallie Hooper Morrow of Nashville, Tennessee, to her future husband, Thomas Ludlow Chrystie, while he was in New York City training to be a lawyer. The letters were written mostly from Nashville, as well as from Pulaski and Knoxville, Tennessee, and describe her daily activities, views on courting, and the habits of the household’s African-American servants. There are no envelopes. Chrystie generally wrote...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains one hundred and thirty letters written from 1891 to 1895 by Sallie Hooper Morrow of Nashville, Tennessee, to her future husband, Thomas Ludlow Chrystie, while he was in New York City training to be a lawyer. The letters were written mostly from Nashville, as well as from Pulaski and Knoxville, Tennessee, and describe her daily activities, views on courting, and the habits of the household’s African-American servants. There are no envelopes. Chrystie generally wrote...