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Personal Name Recipient
Joynes, L. S. (Levin Smith)
Date
1860-06-12
Description
Letter from W.F. Barr to L.S. Joynes inquiring if Dr. Pitts was a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia.
Transcription
Abingdon Va June 12, 1860 Dear Sir: If consistent with your duty will you be so kind as to let me know what were the "special and important reasons" which induced you to write to me asking whether The remark that Dr. [William H.] Pitts had stated, when a witness in the Brownlow trial, that he was a graduate of the Richmond Medical College was a "mere rumor [underscore] or a substantiated fact"? I am requested to write you this by several members of the Profession in this place. We have understood that Dr. P. expects to obtain Diploma from your College! Be so kind as {to} let me hear from you by earliest convenience. Yours very respectfully M.L. Barn [Addressed:] Prof. L[evin] S[mith] Joynes, M.D.
Personal Name Subject
Pitts, William H.
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
1 p.
Genre
letters (correspondence)
Local Genre
text; archives
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
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Rights
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 W. F. Barr to L. S. Joynes, 1860 June 12; 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_18600612.pdf