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to Blanche Kelso Bruce

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09400.059 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: 1880 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

This looks like a ledger of some sort. It is written on letterhead of the United States Internal Revenue collectors office form the District of Mississippi. It has a list of names and amounts of numbers. Many of the names are mentioned in previous letters as owing debts to Senator Bruce. The names listed are as follows: Ino S Brnton, Geo M Buchanan, Ino H Athey, Andrew P Shattack, Flemming Leodges, Jus. P Mathens, E.W.Hall, William B Rainer, Theo. W. Huul, and Lenny R Smith. There is no date included.

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898

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