- GLC#
- GLC01896.013-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1847/03/06
- Author/Creator
- Maxwell, William, 1784-1857
- Title
- to Dr. Robert Archer
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Regarding "...meeting of the Executive Committee of our Virginia Historical & Philosophical Society, the following resolution was adopted, on the matter of [illegible] Capt. [illegible] H. Ellis..." Also, includes the Society's request for Archer to prepare a description and historical account of Fort George, on Old Point Comfort, Va. Maxwell, a Yale-educated attorney, was a noted poet and President of Hampden-Sidney College in Virginia.
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