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- GLC#
- GLC02095.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 28, 1851
- Author/Creator
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Title
- to Thomas L. Sprague
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 18 cm, Width: 11 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Thanks Sprague, a schoolboy, for his compliments: "Through my mother, who recently visited your friends in Hingham, I have learned your kind interest in me, & the manner in which you have spoken of me in one of your exercises at school. The words of a soul, so young & ingenious as yours, are precious to me. I receive them as an encouragement for myself & as an [illegible] of your own consecration to a great cause."
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