Correspondence of James Lawrence Cabell [manuscript] 1829-37.

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Correspondence of James Lawrence Cabell [manuscript] 1829-37.

Correspondence with his uncle, Joseph C. Cabell, during the period of Cabell's pre-medical and medical studies at the University of Virginia, the Baltimore Alms-house, and in Paris, containing observations on student life, expenses, national politics, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and travel between Princeton and Philadelphia. Persons named include Eliza Cabell, Nancy Carrington, Charles Bonnycastle, George Blaetterman, Robley Dunglison, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, William Wertenbaker, William Brent, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Emmett, John Hartwell Cocke, Conway Robinson, Francis Walker Gilmer, St. George Randolph, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, Alexander M. Sheppard, James P. Tyler, and Chapman Johnson. Of interest is a letter dated 1863, Apr. 19 to W.F. Stewart regarding an assignment as surgeon at the Confederate Hospital in Charlottesville.

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