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Heman Harwood Robinson

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Robinson, Heman Harwood · 1838

Eighteen letters, from 1838, to Heman Harwood Robinson, a Vermont-born physician and slaveholder of Elizabethtown, N.C., mostly from family. His mother sent news from Vermont, a cousin described gales battering ships along the state's coast, and a brother reported the 1840 state election results. The University of North Carolina in the nineteenth century also comes up.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Robinson, Heman Harwood, 1814-1872.

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