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Peyster, John Watts de, 1821-1907 to Edwin D. Morgan

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03615 Author/Creator: Peyster, John Watts de, 1821-1907 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Letter signed Date: 4 January 1864 Pagination: 3 p. : docket : ill. Height: 20 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

Encloses an address he delivered in Vermont on secession in Switzerland (not present) and asks Morgan to read it as an example for the United States. Writes, "I sincerely hope that you will do me the honor to read it in as much as the treatment and fate of Secession in Switzerland would have served as a complete lesson to our authorities had they been willing to profit by the experience of others." Printed illustration ("Battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862") on blank leaf of paper.

Peyster, John Watts de, 1821-1907
Morgan, Edwin Denison, 1811-1883

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