A Guide to the Benjamin Blake Minor Letter 1837 Minor, Benjamin Blake Letter 1837 11321

A Guide to the Benjamin Blake Minor Letter 1837

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The Special Collections Department
Accession number 11321

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

11321

Title

Benjamin Blake Minor Letter 1837

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Benjamin Blake Minor Letter, 1837, Accession #11321, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This letter was purchased by the Library from The History Broker in Roanoke, Virginia, on August 4, 1997.

Scope and Content Information

This is an incomplete letter, October 10, 1837, from Benjamin Blake Minor (1818-1905), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, to William Thomas Leavell, Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia. He discusses the challenges and difficulties with his tutorship of the children of a professor B[ ] of the University, indicating that they have been carelessly taught and know nothing about what they have already learned in the disciplines of Latin, French, and English. He mentions two Episcopal ministers being at the University, [Joseph Pere Bell] Wilmer (1812-1878), the chaplain, and a Mr. [ ] Christian. He mentions several of Leavell's old schoolmates and acquaintances, including Robert Hamilton, William S. Barton, William S[hakespeare] Caldwell, P[resley] T[hornton] Lomax, James E. Ellis, and Ben[jamin] Thompson.