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Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 to Metcalf Marsh

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05240 Author/Creator: Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 Place Written: Cranston, Rhode Island Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 October 1846 Pagination: 1 p. : address Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Discusses complaints against a physician for neglect. Asks Marsh to obtain a position in a post office for a friend of the "constitutional cause." Marked "Private." Dorr had been released from prison the previous year; he had been convicted of treason to the state of Rhode Island after the Dorr Rebellion.

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
Marsh, Metcalf, fl. 1835-1846

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