Student notebooks from medical school, ca. 1842; records of medicines in stock, and names of white and African-American patients receiving treatment; and financial records relating to settlement of estate of Mabry's brother. Two volumes, ca. 1842, of student notes from Mabry's medical studies while enrolled at University of Virginia are a record of lectures on medicine and such topics as rape, infanticide, life insurance, persons found dead, and personal identity. Diary volumes include information on patients visited, weather observations, and daily activities, with discussion of treatment of free and enslaved members of the local community, difficulty of collecting fees, attendance at church and temperance meetings, expressions of grief and depression at deaths of two of his older brothers, particularly that of Stephen Tompkins Mabry (1819-1843), and unhappiness while living on property owned by his father-in-law, Titus Greene Farr. Earliest diary, 30 Apr. 1843 - 2 Oct. 1850, with later genealogical notes, includes regular entries from 30 Apr. 1843 to Sept. 1844, after which Mabry added occasional entries each year. It discusses the start of his medical practice in Union County, S.C., and includes the text of an oration in celebration of Independence Day, "Address Delivered at Creek Cane Church, July 4th, 1847, Union District of So. Ca." Matters of national significance discussed include references to annexation of Texas (16 July 1844) and death of John C. Calhoun (Mar. 1850). Persons mentioned from the Union area include Capt. J. Moffett, William Richardson, James Stackburn, Allen Shields, Frank Tompkins, James Blackbrown, and others, including Mabry's cousin, the Rev. George Washington Brooks (b. 1812), Baptist minister and a founder of Furman University. Diary contains undated entries listing Mabry's books, medical equipment, and medicines in stock. Papers and receipts re settlement of estate of Mabry's elder brother, Reuben L. Mabry, who died ca. 1852 and also practiced medicine in northeastern Abbeville District, S.C. [now Greenwood County]; Receipts, ca. 1850s, with merchants and others re settlement of estate of R. L. Mabry, including detailed accounts of purchases from Smith and McCants general store (Cokesbury, S.C.) and Cochran Stokes and Co. (Hodges, S.C.); accounts, ca. June 1852-Oct. 1853, for detailed list of hardware, repairs, and implements purchased from blacksmith B. [Zachariah?] Herndon [legal size]; receipt, 19 Sept. 1854, re settlement of estate of Reuben S. Mabry; receipt, 8 Feb. 1853-7 Feb. 1855, confirming that M.W. Mabry repaid loan with interest. Letter, 30 April 1858, sent from New York to Mabry in Pendleton, S.C., noting which items could not be located, such as a certain variety of syringe, and reporting "we have executed your order, and after some delay incident upon procuring articles which are difficult to find, the goods are now shipped." Two letters, 26 Oct. 1860, George W. Carpenter, Henszey and Co., Philadelphia, Pa., to Drs. Mabry and Sloan, Pendleton, S.C., re shipment of unspecified items by rail, except for one item sent by sailing ship as requested; and letter, 3 Sept. 1880, Mrs. A.E. Holder, requesting quinine for her sick baby and describing symptoms; other financial records include promissory notes, 12 Jan. 1878, for $75 rent on house in Williamson County, Ga., to be paid by Mabry on or before 1 Dec. 1878; statement of amount due to James Simpson and Sons for services, Apr.-July 1878; and promissory notes 20 Jan. 1880, obliging Mabry to pay $10 debt. Bound items include volume (1 Jan.-23 Dec. 1855, 1856, 1857), record of patients treated, with brief entries ca. 20 Apr. 1857 re trip from Abbeville, S.C., through mountains of northern Georgia; 2 volumes (1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1868 and 1 Jan.-24 Sept. 1869), record of Mabry's activities in Abbeville with discussion of life during Reconstruction, including weather observations and house calls; later volume (1883-1884, 1891, 1897-1898), re medical notes and entries, 18 Aug.-14 Sept. 1897, written in cryptic shorthand; and 1887 address book. Includes four photographs: ambrotype of Mathias Washington Mabry; daguerreotype of Mary B. Farr Mabry; daguerreotype in union case by Littlefield, Parsons, and Co. of Amanda Katherine Farr Mabry; and ambrotype of Amanda Katherine Mabry holding a baby.
