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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Texana: documents, many relating to Thomas Ward & archives war [decimalized]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02145 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1836-1869 Pagination: Order a Copy

Note that some letters are written to "William" Ward, i.e., Thomas William Ward, the person who assembled this archive as archivist of the Republic of Texas.

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