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to Francis Preston Blair [incomplete]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03209.27.04 Author/Creator: Place Written: Bardstown, Kentucky Type: Autograph letter Date: 1825-1845 Pagination: 3 p. : address ; 25 x 19.9 cm. Order a Copy

An unknown author describes the education of another young man to Francis Preston Blair, editor of the Democratic Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Globe. Date range estimated, based on the time Blair lived in Washington, D.C. Only the last three pages of this letter survive.

Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876

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