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- GLC#
- GLC00431.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 15, 1846
- Author/Creator
- Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890
- Title
- to Elias Root
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Writes about the whereabouts of a captain. Discusses the situation in Washington and remarks, "At present there seems to be but little chance for the Radical democracy ... certain it is, they can't be worse than they have been." The letter is written on blue paper.
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