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W. G. Curtis Papers, ., 1813-1913, (bulk 1875-1913)

Title: W. G. Curtis Papers, . 1813-1913 (bulk 1875-1913)

W. G. (Walter Gilman) Curtis was a native of Massachusetts, and a physician of Smithville, N.C., (now Southport) and Wilmington, N.C. The collection includes family correspondence and other records. The bulk, 1875-1913, consists of correspondence of Curtis and his third wife, Margaret Coit Curtis, including letters from her relatives in New Jersey and California; and letters from their children, including Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (b. 1881), New Orleans architect. Other correspondence is that of the Johnson family of New Jersey, Margaret Coit Curtis's mother's family, 1813-1827; letters to Curtis from his first wife, Sarah Pratt Curtis, from Massachusetts, 1854-1860; letters from his second wife, Sarah Weeks Curtis, in New York, 1865-1866; and papers of Benjamin Billings Coit (1801-1866), New York City and San Francisco, Ca., physician. Volumes include scattered accounts and memoranda of W. G. Curtis and B. B. Coit; Curtis's notes of medical lectures at Harvard Medical School, 1849-1853; diary of Sarah Weeks Curtis, 1858-1860; records of a Smithville baseball club, 1867; records, 1871-1882, of Kendal and Lilliput, rice plantations in Brunswick County, N.C.; records of Curtis as state quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, 1868-1895; and vestry records of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Smithville, 1876-1904.

ArchivalResource: 800; 2.0

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Curtis, W. G. (Walter Gilman), d.1909. W. G. Curtis papers, 1813-1913 (bulk 1875-1913).

Title: W. G. Curtis papers, 1813-1913 (bulk 1875-1913).

Family correspondence and other records. The bulk, 1875-1913, consists of correspondence of Curtis and his third wife, Margaret Coit Curtis, including letters from her New Jersey and California relatives; and letters from their children, including Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (b. 1881), New Orleans architect. Other correspondence is that of the Johnson family of New Jersey, Margaret Coit Curtis's mother's family, 1813-1827; letters to Curtis from his first wife, Sarah Pratt Curtis, from Massachusetts, 1854-1860; letters from his second wife, Sarah Weeks Curtis, in New York, 1865-1866; and papers of Benjamin Billings Coit (1801-1866), New York City and San Francisco physician. Volumes include scattered accounts and memoranda of W. G. Curtis and B. B. Coit; Curtis's notes of medical lectures at Harvard Medical School, 1849-1853; diary of Sarah Weeks Curtis, 1858-1860; records of a Smithville baseball club, 1867; records, 1871-1882, of Kendal and Lilliput, rice plantations in Brunswick County, N.C.; records of Curtis as state quarantine officer for the port of Wilmington, 1868-1895; and vestry records of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church, Smithville, 1876-1904.

ArchivalResource: About 800 items (2.0 linear feet).

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