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Livingston, John to Robert Livingston re: his return home

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00627 Author/Creator: Livingston, John Place Written: New Haven, Connecticut Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1701/08/31 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 22.5 x 18.3 cm Order a Copy

John writes of his plans to return to New York the next day, and requests that Mr. Saffer bring 5 dozen buttons for a vest and his "Portmantey trunck."

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