Scope and Contents
Correspondents, chiefly with William F. Wickham, include: Beers and Poindexter, Robert M. Candlish, John S. Corbin, Robert Ellett, William Linton, A.T.B. Merritt, Nathaniel Nelson, J.W. Pegram, W. Richardson, Thomas Samson, John Shore, John N. Tazewell, James G. Watson, and William L. White. Topics include mention of the horse “Priam” at Merritt’s Hicks Ford stud in Virginia and the failure of Wickham’s Eclipse mare to foal last spring (May 11, 1842); the dire condition of the [enslaved...
Dates:
1842 January-August