the final object is a letter from william massey. he was writing from richmond to his father henry massey in charlottesville this letter dated january 29th, 1876. it included a little piece of paper which you can see on the right side of the screen. that was that was fold it up and pin to the inside of the letter and when his father opened the letter and open this little enclosure. he would have found this a smallpox scab and william wrote to his father saying that he basically was sending his father a scab so that his father could inoculate members of the family and william wrote to his father henry. harris says the peace i enclose the scab is perfectly fresh and was taken from an infant's arm yesterday, but that you must let him know whether it takes and if it does not he will send you another scam continues dr. harris says the enclosed scab will vaccinate 12 persons, but if you want more you must send for it, i will pin this to the letter so that you cannot lose it as you did before actually much of the letter william is expressin