[Letters of Eliza Lea Warner Wright, 1835–1854 (spine title)].

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Bound volume collecting transcriptions of letters written by Eliza Lea Warner Wright from Rio de Janeiro, Baltimore, “Blakeford,” Queen Anne County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and elsewhere.

The letters are almost diary or journal-like and are addressed to the children of her first marriage, Valeria and Anna Matilda, and others including her son-in-law Paul S. Forbes, Valeria’s husband. The letters were mostly written from Baltimore or “Blakeford,” after Eliza’s return from Rio de Janeiro in mid to late 1835. Wright’s letters span an almost twenty-year period.

In 1830, Eliza Lea Warner Wright, a native of Delaware and widow of Samuel Turbutt Wright (1749–1810), re-married and became the second wife of William Henry DeCourcy Wright (1795–1864 of “Blakeford,” Queen Anne County and Baltimore, Maryland. Coffee merchant William H. DeC. Wright was the founder of the American-Brazilian coffee trade and served as U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro from 1825 to 1834 and later as sometime Chargé d’Affaires.¹

Scarce collection of outgoing 19thc. correspondence by an affluent Maryland woman; this volume likely one of a small number that were created and distributed to family members.

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