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Correspondence to Mary Snowden Cairns from Sister Hughetta Snowden, St. Mary's Convent, Memphis, TN, 1873 October 16.
Sister Hughetta is writing to her sister, Mary, during the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, TN that lasted from 1873-1879. She states that "we are so very busy that I have but five minutes in which to write this note. From morning till night, we are working for the sick, & visiting & nursing them, yet it seems but little, that we do for the suffering & affliction is so great, that much more is needed than we can do. Kind friends have sent so generously to us that we no longer want for money for the poor. Good nurses are our greatest need at present & the prayers of the faithful the greatest blessing that can be given Memphis now."
Identifier
sc.0065.001_016.001
Date
1873 October 16
Keywords
Snowden family., Correspondence., Yellow Fever--history--United States.
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"Correspondence, to Mary Snowden Cairns from Sister Hughetta Snowden, 1873 October 16" (2023). Documents. 20.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily1/20
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