Box 1

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Letters directed to Isaac Mekeel and discuss family and health and business issues. New York, 1839 12/5. [price of meat, sale of vegetables; scarcity of money] New York, 1839 12/13. [asks if Isaac will take a nephew to teach him farming

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To Arthur Mekeel. Westtown, [Pa], 1843 12/31. [visited two prisons and other sightseeing, including description of Westtown School] To Jacob Mekeel. Providence, 1848 12/8. [describes Providence Friends Boarding School]

Scope and Contents Letters speak of local events and mutual friends and health. Letter writers include: John Griffin, Mary Mekeel [Griffin?], Carrie Haviland and Hannah Mekeel, Hannah Quinby Haviland, Charles W. Hoag, Catharine Irish, W.H. Ketcham, E.B. Underhill, Mary Underhill, Sarah Vanderbilt, Edward Wanzer Hoag, Charles to Arthur Mekeel. Washington, 1846 1/13. [reports on some students and events at Nine Partners School in Poughkeepsie, NY] Irish, Catharine to Mary Mekeel. N.p., n.d. Writes as a friend at...

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Also includes Dr. Valentine Mott’s directions, which were medical instructions, such as the application of leeches Fountain, Hosea to “respected sir.” West Somers, 1851 4/19. [apparently a physician, Fountain writes a lengthy diagnosis of the disease from which Arthur Mekeel died] Nichols, M. to “Friend Haviland.” B. Asylum, 1850 4/12. [assures the recipient that the medication prescribed for Arthur Mekeel, Nux Vomica, was not the cause of death]