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- GLC#
- GLC04501.003-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 16, 1858
- Author/Creator
- Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
- Title
- to his father Tobias Gibson
- Place Written
- Lackland Lafourche, LA
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 16.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Discussing the impact of the weather on crops at Live Oaks and Greenwood plantations, an order for "gas fixtures," and the incidence of fever in the vicinities. Tobias Gibson's family owned three plantations in Louisiana.
In part: "The health of the neighborhood is not at all good - the type of Fever, however, is mild & yields readily to treatment. Nearly everybody has been sick...The sooner you come the better - but you will observe that the Yellow Fever only assumes a more malignant type & may yet spread. It was after this that it was fatal in Thibodeaux."
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