Series 38 - DeButts-Armstrong letters

18pp

The transcripts of the DeButts-Armstrong Letters were donated to Kerby A. Miller by Meta Lytle via her husband Scott Lytle, University of Washington and Lytle's colleague/Miller's collaborator Professor W.J. Rorabaugh, per letter of 31 Mar 1983.

Transcripts of five letters sent between 1805 and 1819 from Margaret Armstrong and her son William in Sligo to Margaret's brother Samuel DeButts and his wife Mary, along with Scott Lytle's notes on DeButts, who was a prominent physician in the Washington, D.C. area during the early 19th century. Also present is a sixth letter written in 1839 by Margaret to her niece in Loudoun County, Virginia.