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I just received another literary work by Sam Carter from his daughter, Bev Coffman. This is an illustrated poem about his sister Harriot Carter. I’ve been looking around for something suitable with which to start a piece on Harriot Carter, and I think this is it. This is the only other picture I had of…… Continue reading Harriot Carter Gwathmey Claiborne

This is the second half of Boyhood, Vol. II. Our protagonist, Sam Carter, takes a trip to Boston with his Aunt Anne and her husband, Minor Harris; stopping to visit Uncle Lee on their way through Philadelphia. He describes seeing the Red Sox play the White Sox at Fenway. Back in The Plains, he starts…… Continue reading Boyhood, Vol. II, Part II

Beverley Carter Coffman discovered a series of small handwritten books that her father, Sam Carter, had written in his youth. They are all dated 1934 when Sam would have been almost 13 years old. Since this one book, Boyhood ,Volume II, covers events that happened as many as  2 or 3 years prior to 1934,…… Continue reading Boyhood, Vol. II, by Sam Carter

I found this hand written and illustrated story of Clarissa Fleming’s favorite horse of all time among the valuable papers in her Homewood desk, right next to all the other original manuscripts that she prized. There is no indication of the authorship of this piece. Perhaps someone will recognize their work and come forward and…… Continue reading Old Man River

The Flower Garden My father told me that his mother, Mary Fleming, had been “in love” with her cousin, Irwin Fleming. I don’t know if he had discerned this or whether his mother or one of her sisters had told him. It never seemed to cause him any concern. He, I think quite to the…… Continue reading Mary Fleming’s Garden

Jane Rust Cox, as remembered by Henry Rust. Jane Rust Cox was Mary Elizabeth Lee Fleming Rust’s middle child. My earliest memory of her was that she maintained a room at my Grandmother’s house on Wirt St. although she was rarely there. I think she was mostly working in and around DC by the late…… Continue reading Jane Rust Cox

One of the the many treasures that I found among Clarissa’s papers that were left at Homewood was her father’s farm labor log covering the years 1912 through his death in 1929. This book is a fascinating and revealing look into all that went into operating a farm of this nature; from cutting ice to…… Continue reading The Labor Book