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Cholera

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Isaac French letter

 Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16849
Content Description This collection contains a letter from Isaac French to J. Huntsman, Esq. dated June 17, 1849. French was a guest at Robert Buckner Bolling's plantation in Charles City County, Virginia, called Sandy Point. The letter has no postal markings or stamps, indicating an individual carried it. French describes to his friend his trip to the plantation, the weather, the size of Bolling's fields, the condition of the crops, and the epidemic of cholera and smallpox in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Richmond....
Dates: June 17, 1849