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Chaffus, E.H. (fl. 1850-) Lines Selected for Adaline Harwood on the Death of her Twin Sister

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.284 Author/Creator: Chaffus, E.H. (fl. 1850-) Place Written: s.l. Type: Poem Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.7 x 26 cm. Order a Copy

Includes note at bottom from the author, her cousin.

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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