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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02475.06 Author/Creator: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: July 13, 1854 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy

Writes to an unknown bookseller asking if he has copies of Gray's manual of botany available because Mr. Willis, the principal of the Freehold Institute, is not able to obtain a copy. Asks what the selling price is. With small square fragment of blue lined paper with text, possibly cut from another letter. Addressed from Banbridge.

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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