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1849 July 4 . Leach ALS to "D. Fou"; Steamer Saranah, Mississippi River, [near Keokuk, Iowa].

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Box 2
Abstract:
Comments on a cholera outbreak in St. Louis, Missouri. "... my time was taken up entirely in going to the hospitals I saw upwards of 200 cases in 4 hospitals. -- The public schools are now turned into hospitals." Notes St. Louis holding fasts, enforcing quarantines, keeping continual fires burning. "... the dead are now carried out in wagons uncoffined to the grave. Death! Death! Death!" Hopes the recipient maintains their former piety. Is unimpressed with the "California scheme," would prefer to see the recipient with a situation in the east or south. Lack of Fourth of July celebrations. "There are no celebrations here of liberty. -- Death solemnizes his ghastly triumphs nothing is talked of except Death."
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Collection

Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1936
Total components 316
Last indexed 2024-08-05