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Abstract The Class Letters of Hampden-Sidney College, CA-000114, is a collection of pamphlets containing letters from Hampden-Sydney alumni updating their former classmates about their lives in the years after they had left the College. Each folder in the collection relates to a different graduating class and all of the classes had several editions or printings of letters from various years. It is important to note that not every alumni wrote a letter.

Scope and Contents The Margaret Venable (nee Dickinson) letters contains correspondence relating to familial matters and social information from 1833-1918. Some of the topics discussed include schooling at Hampden-Sydney College, the Civil War, courtships, weddings, new children, and deaths. Not included in the collection are specific details about the Civil War or specifics about classes Hampden-Sydney College.