Letter, 1842.

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Letter, 1842.

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Handwritten and signed letter, dated 12 Jan. 1842, and addressed to Robert Tyler. Babcock presents his recommendation that Henry Higgins be appointed post master of New Haven, Connecticut.

1 photocopy (1 page)

Harold B. Lee Library

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Higgins, Henry

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Babcock, James F. (James Fairchild), 1809-1874

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James Woods Babcock, 1856-1922, was born in Chester, South Carolina. He graduated from Philips Academy, Exeter and received both his BA and MD from Harvard University. After working for five years at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, later Waverly, Massachusetts, he accepted the position of superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum in Columbia, SC. He resigned from that position in 1914 at which time he organized the Waverly Sanitarium in Columbia which he continued to direct until his death in ...

Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877

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