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Francis Taliaferro Stribling Letters, 1852, 1854, Accession #11184, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These letters were purchased by the Library from Jerry N. Showalter of Ivy, Virginia, on May 31, 1995.
Dr. Francis Taliaferro Stribling (1810-1874), an 1829 graduate of the University of Virginia, served as superintendent of Western State Hospital at Staunton, Virginia, during early 1850s.
These two letters (1852, 1854) were written to Dr. Francis Taliaferro Stribling (1810-1874), an 1829 graduate of the University of Virginia, who was serving as superintendent of Western State Hospital at Staunton, Virginia, during this time. The June 18, 1852 letter, from M. B. Carter of Wytheville, Virginia, informs him that she has found accommodations with relatives for her sister Lucy, who is currently a patient at the hospital in Staunton; arranges a travel schedule so that she may meet Lucy at Fincastle; and describes the planned living arrangements for Lucy with two cousins. The September 12, 1854 letter, from Melville M. Johns of Buckingham County, Virginia, concerns the financial obligations for his sister's care, which has been restricted to a more economical course, and makes reference to this being better for "her estate, particularly her negroes which she seems to think so much of."