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Start Over Collection Galt Papers (I), 1745/1892 Date range 1864

Galt Papers (I), 1745/1892 129.00 Linear Feet

Galt family

Professional and personal papers, 1745-1892, of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material.

  1. College of William and Mary

"List of William R. Galt's School, Session of 1863-64", 1864 Box Series 2, Box 11, Folder 113

[Note: Four Galts are listed. Three can be identifed as William R. Galt's sons, but the fourth, "P.H. Galt" is not one of his sons. He may be William's half-brother, a son of Alexander and Mary Anne Raincock Galt.]

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Galt Papers (I), 1745/1892
  3. Series 2: Personal Papers, 1755/1904
  4. Box 11, 1861/1868
  5. Folder 113, 1863/1864

Mary Copland McCabe, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to Sally M. Galt, 1864 Box Series 2, Box 11, Folder 113

Describes her husband and her young daughter. Inquires about Uncle John, and the possibilities for his recovery. Sally Lambert is not yet married, but is engaged to Charles McEvoy. Imagines she knows of "poor Alex's" death. [Note: Uncle John could be any of several people. Sally Lambert married William Edward Sparrow. "Alex" is most likely Alexander Galt the sculptor, who died in January of smallpox.]

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Galt Papers (I), 1745/1892
  3. Series 2: Personal Papers, 1755/1904
  4. Box 11, 1861/1868
  5. Folder 113, 1863/1864

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