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Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's cabin

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03363 Author/Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book signed Date: 1889 Pagination: 500 p. ; 19.8 x 13.5 cm. Order a Copy

Inscribed by Stowe to Edward W. Seymour, dated June 27, 1890, with quotation from Psalms 72:12, "He shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor, & him that hath no Helper." A later edition, printed by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Edward Woodruff Seymour was a Connecticut politician and state supreme court justice from Litchfield, Connecticut, Stowe's home town.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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