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Shelvelson, Harris, fl. 1944 to Sidney Diamond

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09120.423 Author/Creator: Shelvelson, Harris, fl. 1944 Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Typed letter signed Date: 30 May 1944 Pagination: 1 p. ; 18.5 x 27 cm. Order a Copy

Letter thanking Diamond for his informing the magazine that the poem that they published in their April issue appears on a tombstone in the Bronx, and not Indiana as they claimed. Diamond then appends the letter with a short handwritten explanation to Estelle.

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