MsV1 GLW: Grace Latimer Whittle. "An Account of the Summer of 1855 being the year that our city was so severly visited by the yellow fever"

Containers:
Box 1, Item 1
Scope and content:

Scope and Contents Poem. An account of the summer of 1855 - yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk; difficulty of leaving Norfolk; fears of insurrection of slaves; heat of summer; newspapers play down the statistics; trip up the James River; travel over land to Natural Bridge; Lexington; Warm Springs. Section of poetry includes "To Cloe on her 14th Birthday, (1857)" "Easter April 8, 1860". Another section of poetry appears in the back in different handwriting.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Parent restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Parent terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Addition 1990.18: The original is in the Chesapeake Public Library (Virginia) and may not be reproduced, published or quoted without their permission.