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- GLC#
- GLC00768.02-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1878-1892
- Author/Creator
- Lansing, Edwin Y., fl. 1878-1892
- Title
- Letterbook of outgoing correspondence with memoirs of military
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- 306 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Development of the West
Containing pressed copies of Lansing's letters and an account of his military career, pp. 73-78 (5/19/1882). These include military letters as clerk in the Depot Quarter Master Dept (1870s), business letters and family letters to his brother Abraham in Albany, NY. The letters are written from Vancouver Barracks, Washington Territory (1878-86), Los Angeles, Cal. (1886-92) and close in retirement in Jeffersonville, Ind. (1892). The final letters close accounts in Los Angeles.
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