Correspondence of Lachlan Tyler including correspondence with mother Julia (Gardiner) Tyler, sister Pearl Tyler Ellis, and brother Lyon G. Tyler, 1876/1882

Containers:
Box 18, Folder 10
Scope and content:

Scope and Contents Concerning news of the family; social and political news; the completion of his medical studies and various attempts at practicing medicine; his many financial problems; the health of his wife, Georgia Powell and his mother Julia Gardiner Tyler; his hope that his rother [Robert Fitzwalter Tyler] might settle on "some fixed purpose" in life and his sister [Pearl Tyler] might find her own "particular niche"; the bitterness felt towards his step-brothers and sisters; application to become an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy and his disappointment over his failure to pass the Navy's preliminary physical exam. 27 items.

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College of William and Mary
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