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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.212 Author/Creator: Place Written: North Andover, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 August 1874 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 20.4 cm, Width: 25.4 cm Order a Copy

Signed "Gib." Discusses the recent funeral of a General (possibly Harvey Brown, for whom Hunt had written a memorial). Writes "These old veterans who have been spent all & heartily for the country do make material for high eulogy, apart from personal peculiarities or mode of action; - but lucky is he for whom there is a voice to pronounce it, and in the General's case so well & justly." Laments the recent death of General Joseph Abel Haskin. A pencil note indicates that this letter does not appear to be written by John Gibbon.

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889
Gibbon, John, 1827-1896
Brown, Harvey, 1795-1874
Haskin, Joseph Abel, 1818-1874

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