Cyrus Thompson papers, 1830-1931 (bulk 1876-1931).

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Cyrus Thompson papers, 1830-1931 (bulk 1876-1931).

The papers, chiefly from 1876, consist of letters received by Cyrus Thompson about state and national politics, family matters, and the medical profession and public health (from prominent men over the southeast). Among the family correspondence are letters received while he was at the University of Virginia and studying medicine in Louisiana in the 1870s, and letters from his son with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Also, papers pertaining to the military draft of doctors in North Carolina in World War I.

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