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Preferred Citation:

Walter Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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Scope and Contents

Negative photostats of papers, 1721-1767, of the Jones family of Northumberland County, Va. Includes letters written by Walter Jones while a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. and while studying medicine at Edinburgh, Scotland and while in Williamsburg, Va. to his brother Thomas Jones of Northumberland County, Va. Originals located at the Library of Congress.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae
• College of William and Mary--History--18th century
• Correspondence
• Medicine--Study and teaching--Scotland
• Photostats