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Minor, Lewis Willis, 1808-1872. Letter, Constantinople, to Lucy Landon Carter Minor, Fredericksburg, Va. [manuscript] 1853 November 24.

Title: Letter, Constantinople, to Lucy Landon Carter Minor, Fredericksburg, Va. [manuscript] 1853 November 24.

L.W. Minor, aboard the U.S.S. Levant, acknowledges the receipt of several letters from home and his mother, Lucy Minor. He comments that he has given much of his money to the poor of Constantinople and that there is no prospect of being released from there before spring even in the event of an armistice. Apparently his ship, the U.S.S. Levant, could not leave port because of the Crimean War.

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Minor, Lewis Willis, 1808-1872. Papers of Lewis Willis Minor [manuscript], 1730-1965 (bulk 1828-1897.).

Title: Papers of Lewis Willis Minor [manuscript], 1730-1965 (bulk 1828-1897.).

The collection contains correspondence; genealogical information on the Minor, Carter and Champ families; notes on gynecology taken in Dr. Theodore Gaillard Thomas' clinic in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; an essay on phlebitis for a degree of doctor in medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; and a register of naval patients in the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, on the ship St. Philip (formerly Star of the West), and in the Confederate Naval Hospital in Mobile, Al. Also Confederate bonds and money; Minor family legal papers; miscellaneous legal papers re Florida property and a proposed duel between Minor and Archibald Gillespie; copies of the wills of Robert "King" Carter and General John Minor; a memorandum, 1865 May 4, of the terms of surrender for Confederate naval forces at Mobile, Al.; and miscellaneous family papers. Topics include Minor's life and medical experiences, especially with yellow fever aboard the U.S.S. Mississippi during the Mexican War; a Mexican War pension for Eloise I. Minor; life aboard the U.S.S. Independence, the U.S.S.Brooklyn, and the U.S.S. Levant; cruises to the Mediterranean Sea; a yellow fever epidemic in Portsmouth, Va.; Reconstruction in Virginia and Alabama; Alabama land claims; and the case of Santiago Innerarity vs. Merchants National Bank re a sugar shipment.

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