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Prabala Ramachandrayya letters, 1896-1898.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 23 Folder 16
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ramachandrayya, Prabala, -1907.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Postcards.
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Larry Feinberg (Needham, Massachusetts), 2017 (eBay)
- Physical Description:
- 8 items (8 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 23 Folder 16
- Place of Publication:
- 1896-1898.
- Biography/History:
- Born in Madras, India, Ramachandrayya attended Madras Christian College and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1885. He served as a missionary in the United States as early as 1895. Ramachandrayya received his medical degree from Baltimore Medical College in 1897. He then attended Harvard and received a specialized degree of medicine in 1898. Ramachandrayya eventually returned to Madras.
- Summary:
- Eight brief letters written on postcards from Ramachandrayya to his nephew [Prabala Subsamanyam?]. The letters span the years from 1896 to 1898. In the postcards Ramachandrayya discussed his family, missionary work, and education. Ramachandrayya wrote the postcards from Baltimore, Maryland and Boston, Massachusetts.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 982698734
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