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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 to Charles Sumner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02075 Author/Creator: Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa 1873 Pagination: 3 p. 21 x 14 cm Order a Copy

Written on her personal stationery, embossed with a "D," to her benefactor and friend, Sumner. Requests him to send certain government publications to her at the Government Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy in Washington, D.C. Among these are the 1870 census, from which Amasa Walker had been sending her information, and F. V. Hayden's Yellowstone survey.

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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