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Cushing, Peter, 1913-1994 to Children

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.079 Author/Creator: Cushing, Peter, 1913-1994 Place Written: s.l. Type: Typed letter signed Date: January 1974 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 17.2 cm, Width: 22.8 cm Order a Copy

Thanking children (apparently disabled or otherwise disadvantaged) for a drawing they sent at Christmas time. He explains to them that even though they are different from other children, they must learn the lessons of life to obtain "higher places." Their present conditions will not matter in the next life because "all imperfect bodies will be made like unto His glorious body."

Cushing, Peter, 1913-

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