{"value"=>"<p>This subseries includes letters from both George Colles' immediate and extended family. There are loving and instructional letters from his parents, received while he was a child attending boarding school, letters from his brother James on business, and a few letters from his sisters. Two letters from James' wife, Mary Blachly Colles refer to the distance and animosity she felt from George's wife, Julia.</p> <p>Letters from George's children detail their lives at boarding school with requests for visits from their father, for money, fruit or small trifles from home. As the children grew older, they often referred to their father's business dealings and showed their awareness that the family was in financial trouble. George Colles, Jr. wrote about taking a tutoring job and living more frugally while Gertrude mentioned the need to live on more slender means than her classmates.</p> <p>From George's extended family, there are many letters written to him as the executor of his father's estate. His nephews, Henry Metcalfe and Colles Johnston, wrote to him extensively regarding their mothers' (Harriet Colles Metcalfe and Frances Colles Johnston, respectively) claims on the estate.</p> <p>A letter from George's cousin, Gertrude Pond, invites him to accompany her to an evening at Washington Irving's house to meet the author.</p>"}