Box 1

Scope and Contents Contains Gordon's incoming correspondence while he was a student (1826-1832) at Yale College and while working in Baltimore. The letters are largely from his mother Susan F. Gordon and his sister Susan F. Gordon. Their letters describe their activities at the family home Kenmore, in Virginia. There are also letters from his wife Emily C. Gordon describing her activities in Philadelphia while visiting her family and her children's illnesses and treatments as well as her own ill-health....