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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Whitman, Walt Memoranda During the War [presentation copy to J.Q.A. Ward]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03737 Author/Creator: Whitman, Walt Place Written: Camden Type: Book signed Date: 1875 Pagination: [2], 68 p. 13.1 x 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Inscribed on a printed "Remembrance Copy" notice. To Ward from "his friend the Author."

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