Box 1
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Correspondence, 1842 December
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of the Holmes family. Chiefly letters, 1842-1887, received by George Frederick Holmes, educator, concerning the College of William and Mary, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. Correspondents include William Campbell Preston, Andrew Steele Fulton, Robert Saunders and Charles Minnigerode. The collection also includes papers of the Floyd and Preston families; an album kept by Eliza Lavalette Floyd Holmes consisting of plant leaves, newspapers and memorials...
Dates:
1842 December
Edmund Rhett, Columbia, S.C., to George Frederick Holmes, Orangeburg, S.C. , 1842 December 7
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Object: 1
Identifier: id142975
Scope and Contents
Discusses books to be sent to Holmes and possible collaboration on an article for the Southern Quarterly Review.
Dates:
1842 December 7
Dr. James Lawrence Cabell, General Hospital, Charlottesville, Va., to George Frederick Holmes, 1842 December 21
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Object: 2
Identifier: id142976
Scope and Contents
Regarding some scab samples [requested by Holmes?] and expressing sympathy for the loss of [Holmes?] child.
Dates:
1842 December 21
T. Taylor, Oxford, England, to George Frederick Holmes, 1842 December 31
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Object: 3
Identifier: id142977
Scope and Contents
Congratulates Holmes on his recent articles for the Southern Quarterly Review and comments on the superiority of an English education.
Dates:
1842 December 31