St. Leger Landon Carter Letter to Dr. Beverley R. Wellford
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
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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.
Extent
0.01 Linear Feet
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by John M. Presson Fund, Class of 1916. Acc. No. 1990-40.
- Author
- Karen King, SCRC Staff
- Date
- January 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository