St. Leger Landon Carter Letter to Dr. Beverley R. Wellford

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Identifier: SC 00362

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St. Leger Landon Carter Letter to Dr. Beverley R. Wellford

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Scope and Contents

The letter from St. Leger Landon Carter, to Dr. Beverley R. Wellford, regards his personal medical bill as well as the medicines provided to his enslaved servant, Pleasant.

Dates

Creation: 1850 January 28

Creator

Carter, St. Leger Landon (Person)
Wellford, Beverley R. (Beverley Randolph) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

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Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Biographical / Historical

St. Leger Landon Carter was a member of the Virginia Senate as well as a planter, a contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger and other publications of that day, and the author of the miscellaneous collection in prose and verse, published under the title of "Nugae by Nugator" in 1844.