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dc.contributor.author	DePelchin, Kezia P. (Payne), 1828-1893
dc.coverage.spatial	Memphis (inhabited place)
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-18T03:54:03Z
dc.date.available	2011-03-18T03:54:03Z
dc.date.issued	1878
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1911/27248
dc.description	7 handwritten pages, writes of traveling from one place to another, entire family with fever, describes the death of the mother and daughter
dc.format.medium	Correspondence
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Rice University
dc.relation.ispartof	Is part of a bound volume of 35 letters, the majority of which were written by Mrs. Kezia Payne DePelchin (1828-1893) to her sister, describing her experiences as a nurse during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. The letters and other text are handwritten copies of the originals. The title on the volume of letters is "The Epidemic of 1878." For the full bound volume version please see http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/21946
dc.relation.ispartof	Finding Aid available at http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0201
dc.rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution 2.5 license
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
dc.subject.lcsh	Yellow fever--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century Yellow fever--History--United States Disease outbreaks--History--United States
dc.title	Letter from Kezia Payne DePelchin at Memphis to her sister, Sallie Payne, October 6, 1878
dc.type	Text
dc.digitization.specifications	Images were captured using the TTI Better Light Super 8K2 digital scan-back system. Master Tiff images were scanned at 24-bit color, adobeRGB1998 color profile, at 600 dpi for graphically intense images and 400 dpi for text. Textual materials are marked up in TEI/XML standard (P5 version).
dc.contributor.funder	Funding for the creation of this digitized text is provided by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.date.digital	2008-03-16
dc.format.xmlschema	tei-americas-p5
dc.date.original	October 6, 1878
dc.subject.local	Race relations Technology Labor
dc.source.collection	Kezia Payne DePelchin letters, MS 201, Box 1, letter 8, p. 68-74, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
dc.identifier.original	wrc20101010008
dc.identifier.digital	aa00184_08
dc.source.provenance	This collection was given as a permanent loan from Charles McBrayer of the DePelchin Faith Home in 1973.
dc.identifier.citation	DePelchin, Kezia P. (Payne). Letter from Kezia Payne DePelchin at Memphis to her sister, Sallie Payne, October 6, 1878. Correspondence. 1878. From Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Kezia Payne DePelchin letters, MS 201. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/27248.

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