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- GLC#
- GLC05508.230.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 29, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808-1895
- Title
- to J. Wiley Edmands
- Place Written
- Newton Center, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope ; Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Smith writes to Edmands to provide the words for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (GLC05505.230.02). Smith comments that the song's chief merit is the occasion and circumstances in which it was produced, referring to providing momentary joy during the suffering of the Civil War.
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