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This collection consists of four boxes of correspondence, poetry, drawings, newsclippings, bills, receipts, and legal documents, 1801-1915. There are early letters, 1801-1815, of members of the Deland family of North Brookfield (ancestors of Emma Adams), but the bulk of the correspondence was generated by George Bryant Woods to members of his family and by his uncle, Samuel Fay Woods (1837- ) to George. The Civil War letters of George Woods were written mainly to his fiancé, Emma Adams, and concern camp life, long marches, and poor supplies. The Civil War letters of his uncle, a lieutenant in the Massachusetts 34th, provide more detailed information concerning the social and political scene in Worcester, Mass., Annapolis, Md., Washington, D.C., and Virginia, as well as marches, skirmishes, troop movements, and Samuel Woods' opinions of various military leaders.

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