The journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863; . absent andhelpless, and a large fund of unobtrusive knowl-edge and experience, that very few men her correspondence there was an ease andspontaneity rarely found in the letters of literarywomen, and it was early gathered from these thatMiss LeGrand bade fair to distinguish herself inliterature some day. ^ Besides the four sisters, Matilda, Mary, Juliaand Virginia, there were two sons, Washingtonand Claude LeGrand. In the early thirties,Colonel LeGrand sold his estate in Maryland andemigrated to Louisiana, where he settled atYo
The journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863; . absent andhelpless, and a large fund of unobtrusive knowl-edge and experience, that very few men her correspondence there was an ease andspontaneity rarely found in the letters of literarywomen, and it was early gathered from these thatMiss LeGrand bade fair to distinguish herself inliterature some day. ^ Besides the four sisters, Matilda, Mary, Juliaand Virginia, there were two sons, Washingtonand Claude LeGrand. In the early thirties,Colonel LeGrand sold his estate in Maryland andemigrated to Louisiana, where he settled atYoungs Point, or Millicans Bend, on the banksof the Mississippi. While making preparationsto establish his family in their new home, his wifemoved to Alexandria, Virginia, for the educa-tional advantages it afforded, and here MaryLeGrand met her fate. A letter from ColonelLeGrand written in 1836 to his brother-in-law,Thomas Croxall, gives an interesting picture ofconditions in the Southern country at that Croxall was the grandfather of Morris. KATE :MAS0N ROWLANDCorresponding Secretary U. D. C, 1896 BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCH 17 LeGrand Croxall, of Washington, D. C, and thelatter *s middle name bears witness to the affec-tionate intimacy between the two families. Maryland Bend,Near Tuscnmbia, Louisiana, April 9th, Thomas: I am at last fixed in this State after examininga great part of the interior of Mississippi andthis State. I finally have located myself on themargin of this noble river. I found the lands ofthe interior much cheaper than those I havebought, but of a quality that must in a few yearsbecome sterile, while those on the borders of theriver, which are entirely made of its overflowing,can never be exhausted. I have also noticed thegreat expense to which the inland planter is atto get his crop to the river, to ship it from thereto New Orleans, the common market for all ourcotton. Most of the interior lands are morebroken than the hills you sold R. Garner
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