Download or read book Letters to my Dear Husband John A Broadus in New York 1856 Dec University of Virginia written by Maria Carter Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dec. 6. Maria bought a stove: "I hope you will not think I am trying to be independent but I acted upon the very best judgment I could make. The stove he says is first-rate and sold at almost no profit, to Mr. Broadus, for $12. I shall think of you tomorrow, and pray that you may preach and the people may hear with more than mere curious interest [folder 1/22]."
Download or read book Letter 1856 Sept 20 Sherwood to my Dear Husband John Albert Broadus written by Maria Carter Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote: "I am going to write you a very short letter, for several reasons--One is, that I may prove to you my ability to do so, and another is because I am getting anxious to accomplish something while I am here and have done little or nothing so far. We are all well except Annie, and she seems to get on very well during the day, but is restless at night. I think we will have to give her 'Vermifuge' before she will be entirely well."
Download or read book Letter 1859 Sept 26 University of Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote that she was very glad to hear that John and his family had "safely landed at your new home. She had "feared that you and Lottie [Charlotte E. Sinclair, Broadus's second wife] would exert yourselves to much. Tell Annie [daughter Annie Harrison] I had a new cake, on her birth day, we eat [sic] it, and said it was her birth cake ... I have heard that they have called William Thomas at last for the pastor of the church. They have not received an answer." Abram Burwell Brown succeeded Broadus as pastor of the Charlottesville Baptist Church when he resigned to become a professor in the newly formed Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Download or read book Letter 1858 Aug 1 University of Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressed her hope that "you may have great cause for rejoicing this week at your protracted meeting." Of Broadus's children: "Your dear littles ones are well. Annie and little sister have both had colds ... I hope the little change in the arrangement with your friend will not make you sad as it is not an unusual case in matters of much importance. I think all things will work right, I think she gave you decided reason to believe you had won her affection." Broadus married Charlotte E. Sinclair, his second wife, Jan. 4, 1859.
Download or read book Letter 1856 Jan 12 Culpeper C Hs to my Dear Brother John John Albert Broadus written by James Madison Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announced his intention of moving his family from Culpeper Court House, Virginia to Alexandria. "Some day next week, I shall go to Alexandria and take position in the transportation office there."
Download or read book Letter 1856 Aug 22 Richmond Va to John Albert Broadus written by James Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urged Broadus to accept the pastorate of the Leigh Street [Baptist] Church, Richmond. Wrote "I know Charlottesville is a very delightful and a very important place, perhaps none more so, in some respects. Your present post is in my judgment exceedingly important. Still, you have a rising family which must be provided for if you can, or you deny the faith and every laborer is worthy of his hire." Broadus was chaplain of the University of Virginia in 1856. In 1859, he became professor of homiletics and interpretation of the New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Download or read book Letters 1876 May Greenville S C to My Dear Husband John A Broadus written by Charlotte E. Sinclair Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 17: Charlotte complained, "sick myself & these old teeth threatening all the time, the children sick, and Mamma [Somerville Broadus, J.A. Broadus' step mother], so feeble." "If Lida [Eliza S. Broadus] was here, I know I would be trying to sew amid too many difficulties. Sam and Carry, at last, have started on their French." "I don't mean though that any of it could be helped by your hurrying home." May 24: reported Dr. Norwood's opinion about her teeth. "Mamma [Somerville Ward Broadus] is have [sic] a distressing time and rapidly getting worse. The place on her breast discharged constantly and is now quiet offensive ... Baby [Boyce Broadus] is getting better."
Download or read book Letter 1856 July 16 Alexandria Va to John Albert Broadus written by James Madison Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scolded his brother for his "determination to refuse a professorship in the university. "To see you so obstinately (may I say) persist in being poor when you could so easily have an ample living, to see you thus persist in refusing to be placed above the pains of poverty, makes it necessary for me to look at the conscience of the case with purer eyes than most men have." Ends with: "I must not forget to relate that last week some day, I saw your acquaintance and friend Mr. Theo's Scott of Orange, and learned of him that instead of one little Maria Louisa, you have two little girls--twins." John A. Broadus was offered the chair of Greek at the University of Virginia. He refused, but accepted the chaplaincy of the University, serving 1855-1858.
Download or read book Correspondence from First Baptist Church New York to John A Broadus 1856 Oct written by Thomas T. Devan and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oct. 4. Because the "1st Baptist Church of this city has been bereaved of its pastor (Rev. Dr. Cone), she is obliged to appeal to the kindness of ministering brethren for the supply of its pulpit." He asks if Broadus would supply "any Lord's day in November next that may suit your convenience." Oct. 15. Answered Broadus's letter of the 11th, proposing "to preach for us in December, and as you leave to our discretion the naming of the day we would beg leave to say that it would be more convenient for us to see you on the first Lord's day of Dec."
Download or read book Letter 1858 June 7 University of Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote concerning the health of Broadus's daughters: "They talk about papa every day, say they wish you may not have to go from home again to stay so long--they send their love and say they will try and be good children." Broadus's wife died Oct. 31, 1857 and he was away from home while involved in the formation of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Download or read book Letter 1859 Aug 27 Culpeper Court House Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was visiting her Virginia relatives prior to John's move to Greenville, S.C. where he would become part of the first faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "I had the pleasure of seeing your uncle William [William F. Broaddus] and Aunt Lucy, on their way to the camp meeting ... You said your sale would come off Tuesday. There is a small piece of furniture I would like to have. A work stand that used to sit in your chamber."
Download or read book Letter 1856 Nov 9 Nov 20 Alexandria to John Albert Broadus Charlottesville Va written by James Madison Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nov. 9. Concerning the University of Virginia: "You have probably, before this, accepted the 2nd term of the Chaplaincy. Perhaps you would do well to do so. I do not just see how you could do better now. I should be unwilling for you to leave the old dom. If Mercer University were in Virginia, I would be willing for you to be its president, but should not be particularly anxious about it. In Georgia, I have decided unwillingess. True, nowadays, Georgia is very little further off than anywhere else, but it is out of Old Virginia and that is enough.
Download or read book Letter 1856 Aug 27 Alexandria to John Albert Broadus written by James Madison Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote of the death of his twelve-year-old son: "My dear boy Wilmer died today at 12 o'clock and feeling that no one will sympathize more faithfully and truly than you, I write you this morning, after having written only to Mr. Bickers [Edmund Bickers, husband of their sister Martha?] to arrange for the burial tomorrow."
Download or read book Letters 1876 May New York N Y to Dear Papa John A Broadus Newton Centre Mass written by Eliza Somerville Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 10: Broadus' daughter Eliza, nicknamed "Lida" writes her father with information about the medical treatment which occasioned her trip to New York. Broadus was in Newton Centre for a lecture series at Newton Theological Seminary. May 26: "Lida" reports that she is "quiet well again, except not quiet as strong." She is preparing to join Broadus in Philadelphia.
Download or read book Letters 1857 July 24 25 White Sulpher Springs to my Dear Husband John Albert Broadus written by Maria Carter Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote 2 letters, in case John did not get one of them, with similar content. She was having problems: "the chambermaid on this row was changed this morning and I did not get waited on at all." Maria was unwell and staying at the Springs for her health, although "the water does not affect me in any manner. However, she felt better "than I have since I left home, as I was not troubled with that swelled feeling." She died in October.
Download or read book Letter 1851 Sept 2 Charlottesville to Dear Brother Broadus John A Broadus written by Charlottesville Baptist Church (Charlottesville, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extended Broadus a call to the pastorate of the Charlottesville Baptist Church. Broadus ministered as pastor until 1855, concurrently serving as assistant professor of Latin and Greek for the University of Virginia. In 1855, he was elected chaplain of the university, and served two years in that position, during which the church retained him as pastor, even though inactive. He then returned to the Charlottesville Baptist Church, serving until 1859, when he became professor of homiletics and interpretation of the New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Download or read book Letters to John A Broadus Concerning Martha Broadus s School 1856 Oct 18 Dec 30 written by Martha A. Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dec. 9. Martha wrote: "I thought you had fixed the prices in your mind. If you are disposed to change them we are willing that you act upon your own judgement. As to board, it seems that $90 is not too much for all the time, but probably 60 or 65 would do for five days. I merely make the suggestions, do what you think best. I cannot write any more, our pork is killed today, and I must needs be in attendance. [folder 1/22]."
