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Collection Reference Number GLC04501.089
From Archive Folder Archive of Confederate general & family, primarily pre- and post-war re: plantation, slaves, military maneuvers, reconstruction. 
Title John Gibson McKinley to Tobias Gibson stating that the universities in Switzerland are as good as those in Germany
Date 10 July 1860
Author Gibson, John McKinley (fl. 1860)  
Recipient Gibson, Tobias  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Writes that he and Toby are going to Switzerland in September. He justifies the trip by stating that the universities in Switzerland are as good as those in Germany and French is spoken there "even better than in Paris." They intend to go to Paris next year. The bottom of the page has been cut with some loss of text.
Subjects Global History and Civics  Foreign Affairs  Travel  Education  France  Children and Family  
People Gibson, Randall L. (1832-1892)  Gibson, Tobias (fl. 1861-1871)  
Place written Jena Saxe, Weimar
Theme Education; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Recipient Relationship Father