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Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell) (1816-1906) The Knox manuscripts:

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10737 Author/Creator: Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell) (1816-1906) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Pamphlet Date: 1881 Pagination: 12 p. ; 26 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Title continues, "being the substance of a report made at the annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, January 5, 1881, on the arrangement and binding of the manuscripts presented to the Society by the late Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher, with practical observations on the proper disposition of old manuscript letters and other documents." Printed by the press of David Clapp & Son.

Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell)., 1816-1906
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Thatcher, Henry Knox, 1806-1880

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