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- GLC#
- GLC03574
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 August 1882
- Author/Creator
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
- Title
- to Mrs. Randall L. Hunt
- Place Written
- Biloxi, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 24 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Written entirely and signed by Varina Davis, for her husband. Declines an invitation to visit a church festival because he has a prior engagement and must be in New Orleans at that times. Explains that his daughter "would be very glad to contribute by a song to the laudable purpose you have in view" if someone could be sent to rehearse with her beforehand. Written at Davis's home, Beauvoir.
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