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- GLC#
- GLC02504.32-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 30, 1839
- Author/Creator
- Otis, Harrison G., 1765-1848
- Title
- to George Ashmun
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Otis, a former Massachusetts Congressman, declines an invitation from Massachusetts State Senator Ashmun, a member of the committee making arrangements for the Western Railroad Festival. Declares that the opening of the Western Railroad "is destined to have a more decisive and permanent bearing upon the prosperity of Massachusetts than all the measures of public improvement that have been adopted from its first settlement."
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