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Clara to Mary "Mollie" Dewey

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02161.183 Author/Creator: Clara Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1852-1902 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 12.7 cm Order a Copy

She wants Mollie to come see her in June or else she will come see her. She reminds her that she used to say she liked her as well as one of own children.

Dewey, Orville S., fl. 1861-1902

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