Inventory of the Lysander Amsden Letters, 1836-1837

Collection Number 3502-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Amsden, Lysander H., fl. 1836-1837.
Title
Lysander Amsden Letters, 1836-1837.
Call Number
3502-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
4 items.
Abstract
Letters from Amsden, a young New Hampshire engineering student, written while he was on a railroad survey at various places in Virginia, to S. M. Robbe, a friend who was a student at Norwich, Vt. The letters discuss Amsden's surveying work, his impressions of Halifax County, Va., and people in the Shenandoah Valley, and other matters.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1960
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Lysander Amsden Letters, #3502-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Amsden, Lysander H., fl. 1836-1837.
Halifax County (Va.)--Description and travel.
Robbe, S. M., fl. 1836-1837.
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--Description and travel.
Surveying--Virginia--History--19th century.
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Collection Overview

Letters from Amsden, a young New Hampshire engineering student, written while he was on a railroad survey at various places in Virginia, to S. M. Robbe, a friend who was a student at Norwich, Vt. The letters discuss Amsden's surveying work, his impressions of Halifax County, Va., and people in the Shenandoah Valley, and other matters.