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| | Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern PlantationsSeries J: |
 | | Correspondence with the Lawrence children at the Louisiana Institute for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind at Baton Rouge, the Whipple School at Mystic River, Connecticut, Miss Bolton's School at Middletown, Connecticut, and the Hellmuth Ladies School at London, Ontario, Canada, concerns school, social life, and family matters in the 1860s and 1870s. |
 | | In a letter from Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, December 10, [1862?], Henry Effingham Lawrence warned Frances Brashear Lawrence of an outbreak of smallpox in camp and advised her to have their children vaccinated immediately. |
 | | There are two letters to Louisiana Woolfolk at Grosse Tete in 1857, one from her mother, Emily Woolfolk, dated February 14, and one from M. Denton, dated November 6, at Patapsco, saying that she is sending a confirmation certificate and other things. |
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