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Collection Reference Number GLC09302.30
From Archive Folder Collection of Woodson Johnson 
Title Letter to brother
Date 31 May 1850
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Author tells of his wife who is very sick.
Subjects Women's History  Children and Family  Health and Medical  
People Johnson, Woodson (fl. 1820-1864)  
Place written Dublin, Ireland
Theme Women in American History; Children & Family; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information The Woodson Johnson collection contains dozens of letters, and slave bills of sale from tobacco planter and slave dealer in Pittsylvania Co., Va., and Rockingham Co., N.C. Archive includes: Johnson's ledger book from the 1850s, recording debts for various plantation items as well as household goods, sales of tobacco and brandy, and dozens of entries re hiring of negro slaves, expenses, recording labor usage, etc.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859