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[Extract of a letter]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03228.12 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy

Undated, unsigned letter with a later note in pencil at top declaring, "Extract from Rodman's letter to Nancy Maxwell-." The writer gives her memory of a Friends Meeting where Rachel Howland rose and asked the congregation to pray for those in slavery as well as men fighting on the battlefields of the Civil War. States that it was very emotional scene.

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