Papers of Randolph Fairfax Blackford [manuscript] 1798-1870.

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Papers of Randolph Fairfax Blackford [manuscript] 1798-1870.

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Copy of a letter, 1798 Oct. 1, Landon Carter, Cleve, King George Co., Va., to George Washington on "The security of health."--Card, 1812, awarded to John Minor for achievement in drawing at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md. Signed by Louis Guillaume Valentin DuBourg--Letter, 1870 Nov. 22, George Washington Custis Lee, Lexington, Va. to Launcelot Minor Blackford, Lexington, Va., acknowledging his appointment to a committee to examine the feisibility of a Polytechnical school in the South.

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