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        Norfolk Sep 18th  1860
My dearest daughter-
            I have just
received your letter, and it has
taken a load [underscored] off my mind, I tell
you.  I hope there will now be no
doubt as to the recovery of my
darling little Susy.  Kiss her times
without number for her dear Papa.
Tell her how much I want to see
her dear little face.
    Tell Mama to come down as
soon as she can; for I had rather
have her and six [underscored] at least of the
children with me than so far away.
I wrote her by last mail, which
letter I hope she has received.  In
it I told her that the rooms at the
Macon House [underscored] would be ready for
her on Thursday any how.  While
I would not wish her to expose my
little darling’s health by venturing
too early to bring her down, yet I
wish her to come down as soon as
she can.  Tell her to let me know

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the earliest time [underscored] at which to
expect her.  I hope I shall get
a letter by next mail giving me
this information.  She had better
be here as soon as possible, as
we shall be able to get into our
house on the 1st Oct.
    Yet, while wishing her to
leave at the earliest date, I
don’t wish her to run the slight=
est risk of the health of any
of my darlings.
    I opened to=day with fifty
eight [underscored] Scholars, and hear of
several others who are to come.
I shall, I think, have to get two [underscored]
assistants by November [underscored].
    I went to your Uncle Jim to
get Zander’s letter, but he had
mislaid it—As soon as found
I shall send it to you.
    Love to Grandma, Emily, and
Billy—and to Cousin John, Cousin
Marg, John, Sallie, Liffie, and Cousin
Mary & Sarah.  Kiss Mama & all –Affy W.R.G.

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        Norfolk Friday 11th Jan 61
My dearest Daughter
            I have just heard
that Harry Williamson has gone up
to Williamsburg to bring down his
Nieces.  I do not wish you to lose
so excellent an escort – So come down
with him by all means – Bring
Johnnie [underscored] also – We can’t let him
stay.  We all want to see him
so much.
Kiss the dear little fellow a
thousand times for us.
    We are all well, and send
heaps of love to your Grandma,
Emmie, Billy, and all our kinsfolk.
I hope this will find them all
well – I wish you could bring
Emmie down with you to see us
all again – All send a heap
of their love and kisses to you
and Johnnie --
    Ever affectionately,
    In greatest haste.
        Wm R. Galt.
Miss Mollie J. Galt,
Williamsburg Va
PS I send a $5 note -

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Miss Mollie J. Galt, Orange, N.J.
        Norfolk Va, Aug. 7th 66.
My darling daughter
            A few days
ago I wrote you a letter
containing seven dollars and
a few stamps, as also a letter
from Miss Mason.  I trust
that you have received it.
    I enclose a letter to Col.
Binney.  It is unsealed, so that
Mrs B. may read it.
I also send to Robin a
little Fairy Story which I
published yesterday.  It is a
Translation from the German
which I published many years
ago in a New York Paper,
but which I have recast and
made as literal as a School=
boy’s translation in his class.

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There is nothing new to write
about.  I am still as sanguine
as ever about the Professor=
ship.  The election will come
of[f] on Wednesday the 15th, and
I shall hear on the 17th or 18th,
When I will write to you
immediately.
    We all send a help of
love to you, and hope
that you are enjoying your=
self. – Indeed, we know [underscored]
you are.
    Mary writes with me in
the best love to Mrs. Binney.
All our children send their
love to Robin, and to the little
ones a kiss.  Bob wishes to
be especially remembered to
Mrs B.----All are well,
and the City very [underscored] healthy.
Ever affectionately, WmR.Galt.

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To Miss. M. J. Galt, Orange, N.J.
        Norfolk Va, Aug. 20th 66.
My dear daughter,
            It was not
until last Saturday evening
that I heard from the Univer=
sity.  There has been no election [underscored]
and the facts are as follows:
    Contrary to my expectation,
Mr. Peters, of So. W. Virginia,
was a Candidate, and ran well,
all things considered. The vote
was the following:
    For Peters : Col. Preston, Mar=
maduke Johnson, Mr. Hughes
and Dr. Woods.
For myself : Mr. Watts, Dr. Pretlow,
Johnson Barbour and Genl. Lewis.
    The Visitors, finding that
there could be no choice, since
each of us got four votes [underscored], and
neither ^party would give an inch,

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returned home to meet again
on the 8th of September, when
the vote will be taken again.
I know not what will be the
result; though, as at present
informed, Peters stands the best
chance.  Mr Mosby of Lynchburg
was absent at the last meeting.
It is said that he is a friend
of Mr. Peters, and that he will
be present.  The eight who attend=
ed the last meeting would not
change their votes under any
circumstances.
    I trust now to the “Chapter of
Accidents.”?  Some of my opponents
may be absent from some cause,
sickness, or business, for example,
and that will elect me.  But
of this I am not at all san=
guine.

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Peters was the only man in the
State that  could have stood
a chance against me.  He had
very strong claims : He had stood
for the Professorship of Greek
two years ago and was beaten
by one vote [underscored].  He then went over
to Germany and graduated
there in order to prepare him=
self, as he said, to stand for
the next vacancy that should
occur in either of the Chairs
of Ancient Languages.
    He was also shot through
the body ["shot...body" underscored] in the late war,
and this had something to do
with his running so well.
    My friends stood up for
me most nobly.  One of them,
General Lewis, of Rockingham,
a decrepit old man, seventy

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five years of age, rode forty
miles on horseback to vote for
me.  Isn’t he an old Roman?
    And now, my darling, do
not take this news too much
to heart.  I may succeed yet;
though I do not anticipate
that I shall be elected.  If
I find that on the meeting
of the Board in September
there is a majority against
me, I shall instruct one of
my friends to withdraw
my name;--for I will not
be beaten [underscored].
    There was great excitement
at the University.  The faculty
said that “since it was
founded there had not been
two candidates presented
of greater ability.”?  This

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I consider very lofty praise.
    Nobody received a vote but
Peters and myself, though
there were many Candidates,
among them two Professors
of William and Mary.
    My fine run will give
me a very great reputation,
as the Newspapers have com=
plimented me very highly.
    Supposing that I should
not be elected, I have every
prospect of a very fine school
next Session, and shall
have far more means to
support my family than
I have had during this
Session.
    I have had a great many
applications already from
parents for their Sons.

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All well at Mr. D’s.—Emily
sends a heap of love to you.
Emily and Emma Dennison
are with us.  They will stay till
Thursday, when Mrs. C. and both
of them will start up the
Peninsula for Chas . City and
New Kent,  They will take
Susie and Annie with them.
The little creatures need a
trip to the country, and are
crazy with delight at going.
    Emily and Emma send any
quantity of love to you and
wish they could see you.
They are enchanted  that you
are enjoying yourself so much.
    All are well at Ma’s, and
send a help of love to you.
Ma is in Petersburg.  Ned
is going to Alabama to live
having received a splendid
offer from Selma.  He starts

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on the 10th of September.
    I know that you are
enjoying yourself in Orange.
We can never in words thank
Col. and Mrs. Binney for
their great kindness to
you; for we cannot express
it.  What noble friends have
they shown themselves, not
only to you [underscored], but to all of us!
    Mary and all the children
write with me in a great
deal of love to them both,
and also to Master Robin;
and the children all  send a
kiss to those sweet little ones.
I hope that this will find
them all enjoying good
health.
    Tell Col. Binney that I
shall write to=day to Mr.

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Rogers, giving him an account
of what I have written to
you.
    There is nothing new to write
about.  Norfolk is still the
same dull, sleepy place as
ever.  It is extremely healthy
thus  far:--no appearance
of anything approaching to
Cholera.
    And now, good by, my
darling, till I write again.
Don’t be cast down at the
present state of things; for
let the election be decided
as it may, appearances
are much brighter for me
now than they have been.
    I hope soon to hear again
from you.  Your last was
received in due time.
    Affectionately, WmR. Galt.

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To Miss Mollie J. Galt,
Care of Capt.  Pennack,
    Navy Yard, N. York.

    Norfolk Va., Aug 29th, 1866.
My darling daughter—
        I yesterday
received yours of the 25th,
and we are all delighted
that you are passing
your time so pleasantly.
Really, New York must be
indeed a new world to you,
cooped up as you have
been for so long a time in
Norfolk, which is rather
contracted in its ideas.

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This leaves us all very well,
and we all send a great
deal of love to you, and
hope that you are still
seeing as much enjoyment
as ever.
    I suppose that when
this reaches you, the Ad=
miral can your Cousin
Virginia will have left
for Chicago; so I cannot
write to them till their
return, to thank them
for their very great kind=
ness to you, which we
shall all be grateful
for as long as we live.

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What noble friends have
the Binneys been to you!
I suppose that they will
have departed for Boston
when this reaches you;
but when you write to
them, remember us all
most affectionately to
them.  We have no way
of expressing our thanks
to them for their untiring
Kindness to yourself and
to all of us.
    Your trip up the
Hudson must have
bewildered you;--and
then West Point!

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I always told you that
Virginians did not
know how to live, com=
pared with Northern peo=
ple.  I wish that we would
take some hints from
them as to how to live
comfortably.  We shall
learn this after a while;
but we cannot be expected
to learn all at once; for
our customs are ingrained
in us under the influence
of that “peculiar institution,”?
which, thank God, will
now cease to keep us
down.

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    I have nothing further
to write about as to the
Professorship.  The 8th of
September is drawing on,
when it will be decided
who is to be the lucky
man.  In the mean time
I shall try to get all my
friends up to vote for
me, and I think that
my chance is by no means
a bad one.  Anyhow, I
shall do my best, and
shall then have no rea=
son to reproach myself
for having left undone
anything.

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All the Newspapers here
have come out in most
complimentary pieces
in my favor,--also the
Petersburg “Index,”? and
one of the Papers in
Lynchburg, the home of
Colonel Peters.  I did
not know how popular
I was before this, and
what a name I had ac=
quired all over the State.
I hope that all this will
result in my favor;
though I am not sanguine
of success, considering

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that chance [underscored] will have a
great deal now in deter=
mining who will be chosen;
for if one of my friends
is taken sick, Peters will
be elected, and vice versâ [underscored].
    Ma returned from Pe=
tersburg yesterday.  She
is well.  Ned departs
for the South on the 10th
of September.  He should
certainly go, for the sal=
ary he will receive will
be five times as much
as he is getting here.
All are well there, and
send their love to you.

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There is nothing hardly to
write about in this stag=
nating town.  The same
daily round of nothings [underscored]
interest the population
as has always interested
them.  So you must excuse
me if my letter has not
been so interesting to you
as you could wish.
    When I came up home
yesterday I found Emily
Doyle confabbing with your
excellent Mama, and
I delivered your Message
to the young lady.  She
and all her folks are well.

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Bob Loyal has no
doubt seen you ere this,
and delivered my message
to you—nothing but our
love, and that we were all
well.
    Mama was at George
Newton’s last night.  They
were all well.
    The family goes on as
usual.  Bob works hard,
and is doing well.  Rogers
is a noble boy—I hope
you have been able to do
something for him:  let
me know if you think

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you have been able to get
things into a proper train.
    Give my best love to Mrs.
Pennack, in which Mama
joins—Also our kindest
regards to Capt. P.—I
hope that this will find
them both in good health.
How kind have all your
friends been to you!
    And may God bless
you, my darling, is the
prayer of your affec=
tionate Father,
    WmR. Galt.
P.S. Mr. Geo. Loyall and all
now at home are well—W.R.G.