Fund for Jacksonville Sufferers correspondence and receipt book

Includes one volume of correspondence received by the City Treasurer Alfred Turner from donors to the Fund for Jacksonville Sufferers. Also includes a receipt book for donations to Jacksonville Sufferers, Decatur Sufferers and Marblehead Sufferers. The fund was set up at the request of the Mayor in September of 1888 to aid the sufferers of yellow fever in Jacksonville, Florida and other southern towns. The fund raised over $16000 which was donated to Jacksonville and other towns.