Finding Aid for the W.B. Stearns Correspondence Biomed.0256
Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Title: W.B. Stearns correspondence
Creator:
Stearns, W.B.
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0256
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(4 pages)
Date: 1858 August 29
Language of Material:
English
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4919982
Collection conists of a letter to Stearns' sister Maria. Letter refers to the specifics of farming; John Minand's ailing health
and visit to Westminster; a lawsuit with a doctor over a financial dispute, with the details therein and the impending trial;
more about the victim's condition and prognosis; farming problems and labor issues; how Mary Smith succumbed to consumption
recently; George Perry of Saxton River died suddenly of heart disease and was very affluent and well-known in the community.