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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 Gerrit Smith on religion.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04717.08 Author/Creator: Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 v. : 27 p. : Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 14.5 cm Order a Copy

Published by Sinclair Tousey. Includes a letter to Dr. G. B. Cheever (possibly George Barrell Cheever), "Discourse in Peterboro... The Good See: The Bad are Blind," a letter to Henry Ward Beecher on Stonewall Jackson, and a "Funeral Discourse in Peterboro."

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Tousey, Sinclair, 1818-1887
Cheever, George B. (George Barrell), 1807-1890
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall," 1824-1863

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