Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Strachan-Tuck family
- Abstract:
- This group of correspondence and miscellaneous records were assembeled by Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck of Petersburg, Virginia.
- Extent:
- Approximately 100 items in 1 box (0.417 feet)
- Language:
- The records are in English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Strachan-Tuck family collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, legal documents, financial documents, and newspaper clippings. The papers primarily relate to the Tuck family’s life in Petersburg, Virginia, during the two decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War. There are a few pieces of Civil War items, including a post war invoice for $10,000 of Confederate bonds consigned for sale to a Liverpool banker.
There is a small set of letters from the early married life of Robert Glass Strachan’s mother, Sarah Field, in Williamsburg, Virginia. These three letters dating from 1783 through 1789 are in a fragmentary state and include typescripts.
Also included in this collection are three Strachan-Tuck family charts, a manuscript book of poetry inscribed by Ellyson Armistead Strachan to his niece, and business affairs of Robert Glass Strachan.
Arranged chronologically.
- Biographical / historical:
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Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck (1823-1890) was the daughter of Robert Glass Strachan and Eliza H. Currie [or Curry]. Robert Glass Strachan was the third son of Dr. Alexander G. Strachan. Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck was married to George O. Tuck. The couple had five children: Roberta Strachan Tuck; George Ellison Tuck; Eliza Currie Tuck; Albert Beverly Tuck; and Mary Lane Tuck.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Marilyn R. Lester, July 2002.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191