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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.

Unknown Richard H. Jackson's copy of the New Testament

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07705.425 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: London Type: Book Date: 1859 Pagination: 200 p. ; 8 x 7.5 cm. Order a Copy

In the back it says he carried this in his pocket during the war. It also says it was given to him by an intimate friend, Miss Mary D. Armstrong.

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