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Brock Collection: Papers of John Durbarrow Blair

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Description
Sermons, articles, correspondence, and documents. The correspondence concerns religious and social life in Richmond in the late 1780's - early 1800's and the Blair family affairs. Included are Rev. Blair's letters to Samuel Pleasants, the editor of The Virginia Argus, his Fourth of July Oration (1798), and articles on various subjects, some intended for publication in the Virginia evangelical and literary magazine (1821).
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1781-1823.
Call number
mssBR Boxes 45 & 46
Creator
Blair, John D (1759-1823)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description
Most of the 60 sermons were not included in Sermons collected from the manuscripts of the late Rev. John D. Blair (Richmond : Shepherd & Pollard, 1825)
Provenance
Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.
Associated people
Brock, R. A. (1839-1914,)
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