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Reasons for Springfield being preferable to Brookfield as a place proper to have Magazines Laboratories &c.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09912 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 21.1 cm Order a Copy

Both towns are in Massachusetts, but Springfield is near the Connecticut River and other waterways, making it, according to the author, a more suitable place for a magazine. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

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