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A Year of Essential Correspondence - Courting Letters of Julia E. Thomas and W. B. Conway, 1869-70, and Other Family Letters (Paperback)
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A Year of Essential Correspondence - Courting Letters of Julia E. Thomas and W. B. Conway, 1869-70, and Other Family Letters (Paperback)
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William Buchanan Conway of Madison County, Virginia, and Julia
Ellen Thomas, of Blacksburg, Virginia, were total strangers in the
fall of 1869, when their correspondence began. Some mutual friends
of theirs may have discerned a potential compatibility between the
two and subsequently prompted the initiation of William and Julia's
communication. Julia had lived all of her life in the then-remote
mountain and college town of Blacksburg. William, who had grown up
on plantation in Madison County in relative comfort and security
before the war, had returned from the war in 1864 to discover much
of his family's estate lost or sold. He and his brother Catlett ran
their family's farm until 1866, when William left to study medicine
in Culpeper Court House, Virginia. He continued his medical studies
in Washington University in Baltimore, earning his M.D. degree in
February 1869. Soon after this, William left home to pursue his
medical career in Rockingham County, in the heart of the Shenandoah
River Valley, and it was here that he first wrote to Julia.
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