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Preferred Citation:

Editorial about Old Point Comfort, Virginia, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

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Scope and Contents

Draft of an editorial praising Old Point Comfort, Virginia by an unknown writer.  Mentions seabathing, food, walking and the pleasant soldiers and veterans, particularly Colonel Walback. Written between August 1842 and July 1848.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Editorials
• Old Point Comfort (Va.)--History--19th century
• Virginia--Description and travel
• Walbach, John Baptiste de Barth, 1766-1857