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Collection Reference Number GLC02549.35
From Archive Folder David and Isabella Dundas letters 
Title Isabella Dundas to James Dundas containing an account of a fire
Date 8 February 1788
Author Dundas, Isabella (ca. 1747-1823)  
Recipient Dundas, James  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Describes in detail a fire that injured three of their friends. Notes that the newspaper exaggerated the story, "tho' dreadful as it is." Written from Lombard Street in London.
Subjects Woman Author  Women's History  Disaster  Injury or Wound  Health and Medical  Journalism  Global History and Civics  
People Dundas, Isabella (ca. 1747-1823)  Dundas, James (1752-1831)  
Place written Richmond London, England
Theme Children & Family; Women in American History; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Isabella Dundas, daughter of William Robertson of Richmond, married David Dundas, a doctor who was appointed Sergeant Surgeon to King George III in 1791, in 1774. James Dundas was a lawyer in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Isabella's brother-in-law.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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