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Richard Billups Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B49
Scope and Contents
Business, military and legal papers, chiefly 1774-1822, of Richard Billups of Mathews and Gloucester Counties, Virginia. Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.
Dates:
1705-1857; Majority of material found in 1774-1822
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Spanish American War Diary of a Member of a Hospital Corps Humanitarian Mission
Collection
Identifier: SC 00817
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary by a Hospital Corps man detailing repeated trips to Cuba between December 5, 1898 and May, 1899. He was chosen from a Hospital Corps School in Washington, D.C. (Established in 1898, often called "Old Naval Hospital") to be among twelve sent on a humanitarian mission to Cuba. He sails from New York to Cuba on the Bay State Hospital Ship, which is delayed after an explosion within fifty feet of the diarist. The Bay State Hospital Ship was a...
Dates:
1898-1899
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center