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Box 01

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Contains 1 Result:

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846, 12 A.L.s. to Sylvanus Fansher; Cambridge, folder 1, 1826 April 11-1832 November 19, 1826 April 11-1832 November 19 Digital

File — Box: 01, Folder: 11Identifier: H MS c16
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence on topics including: Fansher's potential appointment as a "vaccine agent" by President John Quincy Adams; smallpox inoculation in Newport, Rhode Island; politics and the potential election of the "outrageous & sometimes lawless" Andrew Jackson instead of the "great, moral & truly serious" sitting president, John Quincy Adams, in 1828; the origins of cowpox; cholera; and the activities of his family.