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Cooke, Jay, fl. 1891 to F. N. Barrett

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02048 Author/Creator: Cooke, Jay, fl. 1891 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 21 February 1891 Pagination: 2 p. 23 x 15 cm Order a Copy

Responding from a letter from Barrett, a journalist, who had requested permission to print a letter from him. He has no objection to the publication of the letter "if names were suppressed." Advocates free-coinage of silver. Written on personal stationery and marked private.

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