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D.C. Goddmer letter to Joseph Gales and William Winston Seaton
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Autograph letter signed. Addressed to Gales & Seaton. (1 page)
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Joseph Gale letter to Alvin T. Smith
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Leonard Gale letter to C. F. Wood
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William Knight letter to Edward Meyer Kern
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George C. Pardee letter to Lewis Francis Byington
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