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Livingston, Crawfurd to Johnston Livingston re: plea for Johnston's return to the city

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.04123 Author/Creator: Livingston, Crawfurd Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1837/10/01 Pagination: 3p. + addr. 24.7 x 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Crawfurd questions Johnston's attachment to the countryside, and pleads with him to return to the city, where opportunities for learning would be far greater. He also gives news of Johnston's sisters and their new babies.

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