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Personal Name Recipient
Joynes, L. S. (Levin Smith)
Date
1859-02-21
Description
Letter from Robert W. Haxall, John A. Cunningham, and Frederick Marx to Levin S. Joynes concerning the awarding of an essay prize.
Transcription
Richmond Feb[ruar]y 21st 1859 Dear Sir The undersigned, the Committee to whose judgement were referred the Essays accompany -ing your letter of the inst, beg leave to state that they have carefully read and discussed them. They entertain a common opinion that all these productions are defective; while, in expressing such an opinion they do not conceive it necessary to detail the reasons upon which it is based. If left to themselves therefore to decide, They would not assign the premium to any one of them. Should circumstances however, in regard to which they can only have a conjectual knowledge, induce your Faculty to act differently, they unhesitatingly concur in the further opinion that the Essay upon Typhoid Fever by Scalpel, is the most creditable one of the five submitted to their inspection. Should the premium be awarded to this Essay, they venture to express the wish that the author may be dissuaded from publishing it; they are unwilling that it should be given to the Public under the sanction of their recommendation. Very Respect[full]y Your Obdt. Servts Ro[bert] W. Haxall J[ohn] A. Cunningham Fred[erick] Marx To/ Dr Levin S[mith] Joynes Dean of the Faculty of Med[ical] College of Va
Corporate Name Subject
Medical College of Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Topical Subject
Medical colleges -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- Archives
Geographic Subject
Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Archives
Corporate Medical Subject
Medical College of Virginia -- history
Topical Medical Subject
Schools, Medical -- history -- Virginia
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Original Item Size
2 p.
Genre
letters (correspondence)
Local Genre
text; archives
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
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This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Sanger Historical Files (1859-1865), Excerpts
Physical Folder
Miscellaneous Letters
Source
Original letter: Letter from Robert W. Haxall, John A. Cunningham, and Frederick Marx to L. S. Joynes, 1859 February 21; Letters, Miscellaneous; Sanger Historical Files, Accession Number # 82/Jan/1, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
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san_lettersmisc_18590221.pdf