Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/72/17/1
Title
Letters and primary research
Date(s)
- 1811-1995 (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-series
Extent and medium
115pp
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Transcripts of 3 letters written in 1811 by John Bell in Richmond, Virginia to his sister Anne Jane, first in Monaghan and then in Norfolk, and to his brother Walter in London;
- Transcript of an 1812 letter from John Williams (brother-in-law of John Bell) in London to Mrs. Walter Bell in Petersburg, Virginia;
- Three transcripts from Dr John Bell (son of Walter) in Philadelphia to Anne Jane Bell in Tennessee written between 1834 and 1867;
- Kerby A. Miller’s correspondence with Bell descendants, including family information and photographs;
- Miller’s notes and research on 19th century American medicine, including correspondence with medical historian Dr Gerald Baggot;
- Reproductions of the Bell letters.