Business Correspondence – Hill Carter, 1824/1873

Containers:

Box 3, Folder 6

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Scope and content:

Topics include Carter's impressions of Bristol College, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (October 18, 1834); complaints about the western states and their impact upon agricultural prices and politics, mentioning James Buchanan by name (July 17, 1846); suggestion that the enslaved laborers belonging to their nephews, Robert and John Wickham, be sold to pay the debt of their education (June 18, 1847); mention of a violent snowstorm that occurred just after he had returned home on a gunboat following a period of being nursed by his sister at "Hickory Hill" (November 8, 1862); and the death of Julia Wickham (July 16, 1873).

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