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Unknown [Update on the activities of a baby]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03209.27.10 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter Date: no date Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.3 x 12.4 cm. Order a Copy

An unknown author discusses the activities of a baby. Author references the Blair family, and is assumed to be a relative of Francis Preston Blair, editor of the Democratic Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Globe between 1829 and 1845.

Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876

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