Contributed by Freeport Historical Society
Description
Susan H. (Dennison) Dillingham, living in Portland, writes a long letter to her sister Margaret in Freeport.
While most of the letter is taken up with issues of family, health, child-rearing, and household help, she mentions her husband being at sea too long and of a brother enlisting in the Union Army.
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About This Item
- Title: Susan H. Dillingham letter to sister, January 14, 1862
- Creator: Susan H. Dennison
- Creation Date: 1862
- Subject Date: 1862
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Freeport, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Paper
- Local Code: 1862-01-14 SHDD to MDD letter
- Collection: Dillingham family papers, Coll 135
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Ship captains' spouses
- Clothing and dress
- Health
- Household help
- Recruiting and enlistment
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Breast feeding
- Sewing
- Measles
- Diseases
People
- Bacon, Capt., George
- Dennison, Emerson
- Dennison, Horace
- Dillingham, Bertha M.
- Dillingham, John G.
- Dillingham, Margaret E.
- Dillingham, Margaret M.
- Dillingham, Susan A.
- Dillingham, Susan H.D.
- Dillingham, Capt., Charles T.
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Freeport Historical Society45 Main Street, Freeport, ME 04032
(207) 865-3170
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