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An account, November 29-December 20, 1834, of Dr. A.D. Galt with Henry Edloe for meal and hominy amounting to $18.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents He writes to assuage his father's alarm at his imprudent engagement with a young lady with whom he became involved without proper thought. The lady in question has broken off her engagement with him so he does not plan further pursuit. He replies to his father's advice that a wife should either be industrious, beautiful with frugality, intelligent, or weathy, and that the lady in question had none of these qualities with the counter-charge that he would never marry for...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material....