Title: Letter from George Attmore Sparrow to Thomas Sparrow

Identifier: 0001-b2-fa-i1   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/23606)

Description: Letter from George Attmore Sparrow in Washington, NC to his father Thomas Sparrow. George tells his father that he has been sick all week and spent the previous day in bed with a fever. George also writes about his mother, Annie Mariah Blackwell Sparrow, making cakes that are too rich and living on hog meat. From the papers of Thomas Sparrow (1819-1884), a lawyer from Washington, N.C. who fought in the Civil War and later represented Beaufort County in the North Carolina General Assembly.