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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Unknown to John A. Fox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02198.51 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Boston Type: Printed letter Date: 1867 Pagination: 1 p. ; 13.5 x 21.2 cm. Order a Copy

The secretary of the Second Mass Infantry Association asks for money to build a Memorial Monument.

Williston, Leander A., b. 1830

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