Letters from Conway Whittle II, Norfolk

Containers:
Box 10, Folder 8
Scope and content:

Financial affairs of the sisters; the repair of his house; the Merrimack; meeting of Naval Board to consider restoration of officers to active list; John Tyler's visit, his plans to give Jamestown address and a remark made by Tyler on a previous visit: "He maintained that his election to the Vice Presidency and consequent succession to the Presidency... was a real misfortune to him as it prevented his election by the people to that office."; Dr. Turnbull, a European doctor staying with W. W. Lamb who has a dead daughter; trip to Washington to testify before Naval Court; Dr. Henry William Ducachet; addition to Dismal Swamp Canal; heroic conduct of William Lewis Herndon in Central America sinking; Panic of 1857; installation of the statue of Washington in Capitol Square in Richmond; visit of ex-President Pierce and wife to Norfolk; recounting of Randolph incident; discussion of external slave trade; and his objection to the use of the word "lady" to refer to a black woman.

Access and use

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College of William and Mary
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