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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 to James Osgood

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02506 Author/Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Place Written: Mandarin, Florida Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 6, 1876 Pagination: Order a Copy

Writes to her publisher concerning reprinting her early book, "The Mayflower," for the benefit of "a great fair...at my brothers church in Brooklyn for the 'Mayflower Mission' supported by Plymouth Church for the care of the poor in a destitute section of Brooklyn." In a vertical postscript she writes, "I trust you are keeping an eye out about renewing the Copy right of Uncle Tom ["Uncle Tom's Cabin"]." Written from Mandarin, the Stowe's vacation home in Florida. Two black and white bust engravings of Stowe included.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Osgood, James, fl. 1876

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