Back to TopDescriptive 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.
Back to TopAdministrative 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.
Back to TopOnline 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.
Back to TopCollection 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.
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