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- GLC#
- GLC02075
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa 1873
- Author/Creator
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
- Title
- to Charles Sumner
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Written on her personal stationery, embossed with a "D," to her benefactor and friend, Sumner. Requests him to send certain government publications to her at the Government Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy in Washington, D.C. Among these are the 1870 census, from which Amasa Walker had been sending her information, and F. V. Hayden's Yellowstone survey.
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