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MsV1 GLW: Grace Latimer Whittle. "An Account of the Summer of 1855 being the year that our city was so severly visited by the yellow fever", 1855-1861?
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Identifier: id108624
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Poem. An account of the summer of 1855 - yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk; difficulty of leaving Norfolk; fears of insurrection of slaves; heat of summer; newspapers play down the statistics; trip up the James River; travel over land to Natural Bridge; Lexington; Warm Springs. Section of poetry includes "To Cloe on her 14th Birthday, (1857)" "Easter April 8, 1860". Another section of poetry appears in the back in different handwriting.
Dates:
1855-1861?