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Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02570.25 Author/Creator: Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 Place Written: Alexandria, Louisiana Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 July 1862 Pagination: 2 p. + addr. Order a Copy

Gustave writes this letter by candlelight which he says "shoots up as I begin a word and dies out before I record the first syllable."
Includes camp news. Writes that he may stop by his father's house and check on his brothers' well being.

Cooke, Gustave, fl. 1861-1865

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