J.P. Saffold letter of recommendation, 1837.

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J.P. Saffold letter of recommendation, 1837.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/126884220

This collection consists of a letter from J.P. Saffold in Cahawba, Alabama, to David Dagett and S.J. Hitchcock of New Haven Connecticut, 1837. In the letter, Saffold recommends Benjamin Yancey, who is entering Yale Law School to Dagett and Hitchcock, teachers at Yale Law School, and gives news of himself.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Saffold, Joseph Phillips, 1812-1853.

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Joseph Phillip Saffold (1812-1853) was a lawyer in Alabama. He was born in Wilkes County, Georgia. He married Frances E. Bibb in 1845. Saffold died in Montgomery, Alabama. From the description of J.P. Saffold letter of recommendation, 1837. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 126884220 ...

Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...