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1858 letter from Helen Whiting to her uncle Dr. John Drish of Tuscaloosa
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1858 Letter From Helen Whiting to Her Uncle Dr. John Drish of Tuscaloosa. . 1858. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54670.APA citation style
(1858). 1858 letter from Helen Whiting to her uncle Dr. John Drish of Tuscaloosa. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54670.Chicago citation style
1858 Letter From Helen Whiting to Her Uncle Dr. John Drish of Tuscaloosa. 1858. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54670.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Letter written by Helen Whiting to her uncle Dr. John Drish of Tuscaloosa in 1858. Helen was attending Grove Hill Seminary School in New England. Helen writes of traveling to New Haven, Connecticut. Helen and her friends attended "a concert given by the Germania band of Boston." They also attended the "wooden spoon exhibition of the students of Yale College." Helen was murdered in 1876 by her husband. Dr. John Drish was a prominent physician in Tuscaloosa who built his historic plantation home in Tuscaloosa in the 1830s. The exact location of the school Helen was attending in 1858 has not been determined.
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