Papers, 1840-1841.

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Papers, 1840-1841.

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These letters are amusing, high-spirited accounts of life in Virginia, written to a friend in Vermont. Phelps was spending a year teaching at the Rappahannock Academy, a highly regarded school at the time, prior to his entering Yale law school. He expresses pleasure in Virginia scenery and social life, and a strong distaste for teaching as a permanent career.

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Chapman, George R., 1901-

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Phelps, Edward John, 1822-1900

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Lawyer, politician, diplomat, and educator, of Burlington, Vt., and New York, N.Y.; born in Middlebury, Vt.; attended Yale Law School (1841-1842) and admitted to the bar in 1843; second comptroller of the U.S. Treasury (1851-1853), U.S. minister to Great Britain (1885-1889), and senior counsel (1893) for the U.S. in the arbitration of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy with Great Britain; founder and president (1880) of American Bar Association; taught law at Yale after 1881; died in New Haven,...