H.T. Peery

300 Montgomery Street - San Francisco, California

February 11, 1950

	A year ago last fall on my way from New York to Washington, I 
spent a weekend in Tazewell, Virginia.  Tazewell, as you will recall, is 
where Grandfather and Grandmother Peery lived prior to coming to Utah in 
1864.

	It is a beautiful country in these hills near the western border 
of Virginia.  Tazewell is still a very charming small town with beautiful 
old homes.  Burkes Gardens [Burke's Garden], where Grandfather had his last 
store which was burned during the Civil War, is a beautiful little valley
surrounded by tree covered hills.  At the present time it is used largely
for grazing.  This is a fine blue grass country.  I am sure you would enjoy 
tremendously visiting Tazewell.  They still refer to Grandfather and 
Grandmother as Cousin David and Cousin Leticia [Letitia].

	Shortly after I returned home I received a letter from one of our 
cousins, the Higginbothams, enclosing a letter written in 1895 by 
Grandfather giving some of the background of his family.  It contains a 
great deal of information which I am sure you would be interested in and 
I have had a copy  made for which is enclosed.

					Sincerely yours,

					(s) Taylor
					[Horace Taylor Peery]