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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 to Lady Belper of Derby, England

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00463 Author/Creator: Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: June 22, 1863 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

Edward Everett thanks her for "sending me your likeness" and remembers a visit from twenty years ago fondly. Discusses his son, who went abroad for four years, and his happiness that he has returned. Closes his letter with a long comment on the Civil War: "The terrible war...is becoming every day more & more distinctly a war between Freedom and Slavery; & we hope that is better understood in Europe, the ambitious men who, in our Southern states, are waging this cruel contest for the sake of breaking up the Union & establishing a new gov't. on the corner stone of Slavery, will forfeit that sympathy and aid from abroad, which has hitherto upheld them."

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Belper, Amelia Harriet , -1890

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