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Thayer, Elisha, 1785-1860 to Isaac Hill

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08505 Author/Creator: Thayer, Elisha, 1785-1860 Place Written: Dedham, Massachusetts Type: Letter signed Date: 1834/06/10 Pagination: 2p. : address : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Regrets that almost all the mail received in the town has been anti-Jackson, and that much of the town is against the President.

Thayer, Elisha, 1785-1860
Hill, Isaac, 1789-1851
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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