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to Blanche Kelso Bruce

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09400.023 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9-12 May 1879 Pagination: 1 docket ; Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 8.5 cm Order a Copy

A docket for GLC09400.21, and GLC09400.022. it contains a brief summery of the two letters. Stating that the first letter was from M Hester asking for appointment of his wife to to the Cauton Post Office, and that the second letter is Governor A.G. Brown recomending the same.

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898
Hester, M., fl. 1879
Hill, John, fl. 1879

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