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- GLC#
- GLC04239
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 13, 1851
- Author/Creator
- Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
- Title
- to Mary Ann Jackson
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Inquiring if Jackson can try to interest her neighbors in the American Missionary Association and give them copies of the Association's publications. Writes, "Are there no other Christians in your place and neighborhood [whom] Mr R. and yourself can interest in the Association? Can you not effect this by getting them to read our publications?" Also thanks her for her donation, and sends a pamphlet (not present) on the Fugitive Slave Bill which passed in 1850. On illustrated stationery of the Association.
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