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Box Series 2, Box 9

 Container

Contains 28 Results:

Thomas Wilson to John R. Cabaniss, c/o Charles Waller, Williamsburg, 1855 August 28

 Item — Box: Series 2, Box 9, Folder: 101
Identifier: id108090
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents If the yellow fever is in Williamsburg he should leave. Inquires about the mad people and if the recipient likes living there. All his ducks died. His grandfather is busy plowing. [Note: Seemingly Wilson wrote over someone else's writing of this letter. Clearly he is a young boy.]

Dates: 1855 August 28

Thomas Pearce, Washington, to Alexander Galt, Sr., 1855 August 29

 Item — Box: Series 2, Box 9, Folder: 101
Identifier: id108091
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents The papers have reported the illnesses and deaths of many friends in Norfolk and Portsmouth. Knows Galt's devotion to duty and does not think he will move his office to Hampton.

Dates: 1855 August 29

Folder 101, 1855 January-August

 File — Box: Series 2, Box 9, Folder: 101
Identifier: id105271
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....
Dates: 1855 January-August