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Letter from Kezia Payne DePelchin at Memphis to her sister, Sallie Payne, September 8, 1878

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DePelchin, Kezia P. (Payne), 1828-1893
Description
8 handwritten pages, news of patients, going down a back alley to visit a sick woman, rented a room - hard to do as one hotel would not rent rooms to those nursing yellow fever patients
Date
September 8, 1878
Related Work(s)
Chapter 1 Introduction to Yellow Fever [Research Module] https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113136
Chapter 6 Timeline: Kezia Payne DePelchin [Research Module] https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113136
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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
Finding Aid available at http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/167
Citation
DePelchin, Kezia P. (Payne). Letter from Kezia Payne DePelchin at Memphis to her sister, Sallie Payne, September 8, 1878. 1878. From Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Kezia Payne DePelchin letters, MS 201. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/27217.
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