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Hood, A. M. A. M. Hood

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05603.02.66 Author/Creator: Hood, A. M. Place Written: s.l. Type: Signature Date: September 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; 8.7 x 12.4 cm. Order a Copy

Mayor of Brooklyn, New York. Seal of the City of Providence affixed to recto.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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