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Unknown The Improvement of the Age

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02745.109 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph manuscript Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 7 p. ; 19.5 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Appears to be an essays about how people are becoming more enlightened and prejudices and ignorance are fading away. Much of it is unclear, however.

Fellows, Enoch Q., fl. 1843-1918

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