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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02170.09 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 15 June 1862 Pagination: 4 p. ; 23.5 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

The author writes she will have to plant corn without him. She will send him part of her dress and a lock of her hair. She tells him to write as often as he wants and not to wait for her.

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