Jas. R. Dickinson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to "Uncle" (Dupuy), 1838

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 2
Scope and content:

Thanks him for his letter; describes weekly routine of medical school; mentions a "Rev. Mr. Blunt, formerly of Va, now of Carolina" who spoke on temperance; cold weather; sleighs on the Delaware; small pox in the city (patients in the almshouse). Refers to people of Philadelphia as "cool and calculating people," "highly enterprising"- true blue Yankees. Mentions a "great number of negroes here... [who he feels] are no better than" the slaves of the South. Begs to be remembered to Aunt Dupuy and cousin Adelaid. 2 pp. ALS.

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