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2016.
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English
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The smash-hit musical Hamilton presents its central character as a truth-telling immigrant boot-strapper who used his extraordinary intelligence to make good--but what was he really like? Let the man himself, a prolific and extremely effective writer, tell his story in his own words. Organized chronologically, this collection of Alexander Hamilton's personal letters, business and governmental correspondence, and excerpts from his most important published...
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2007.
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English
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For the 200th anniversary of Robert E. Lee's birth, a new portrait drawing on previously unpublished correspondence. Lee's war correspondence is well known, but the great majority of his most intimate letters have never been made public. They reveal a far more complex and contradictory man than the one who comes most readily to the imagination. This book presents dozens of these letters in their entirety, most by Lee but a few by family members. Each...
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"This family history centered around three women from three generations spans the Civil War through the Jazz Age. Fans of Sallie Bingham's work will especially appreciate her parents Mary and Barry's romance that unfolds in letters and finally results in marriage. Bingham beautifully demonstrates an inheritance of emotion, morality, ideology, and most lasting of all, irreverence. Sallie Bingham has published four short story collections, four novels,...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O'Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and...
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The collection includes Bruner's correspondence with her publishers (1930's-1971); her diaries (1941, 1946, 1948, 1950-1952); personal correspondence and correspondence regarding her work (1919-1971); copies of her poetry, essays, short stories, and her newspaper articles and columns (ca. 1916-1971); and family documents and genealogy. Source: Pumroy.
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This collection includes photocopies copies of autographed, signed letters in ink from the C. H. Black Manufacturing Company. Most of the letters are replies to potential customers asking about certain wagons which C. H. Black can build for them. A letter written on February 26, to "The Supply World, New York City," states that they do not want to place any advertisements at the price quoted, but would place an ad for $50 a year. A letter written...
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This collection contains mainly original correspondences of Raymond E. Willis. Including Willis's campaigns for Senator in 1938, 1940, and 1946 and his years as a Senator. It includes mostly political correspondences dealing with the Republican party and Indiana politics. It includes Willis's voting records from 1941-1944 and a scrapbook compiled about his 1940 opponent Senator Sherman Minton.
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Pub. Date
1936
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English
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This collection contains mainly original correspondences of Raymond E. Willis. Including Willis's campaigns for Senator in 1938, 1940, and 1946 and his years as a Senator. It includes mostly political correspondences dealing with the Republican party and Indiana politics. It includes Willis's voting records from 1941-1944 and a scrapbook compiled about his 1940 opponent Senator Sherman Minton.
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This collection includes family letters from Ireland (1825-1840); letters of introduction for Haran written by Irish businessmen to acquaintances in the the United States (1836); tax receipts, merchant licenses, a will, naturalization papers, and other papers of Michael and Mary Horan from Kosciusko County, Indiana (1837-1858); Civil War veterans' papers and pension papers of Hiram F. Berst (1863-1888); Berst's certificates from the Independent Order...
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Pub. Date
1878
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English
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Folder one of this collection contains correspondence and documents of the Newkirk family ranging from 1878 to 1889, including three letters written by Fred Newkirk from Cochran, Indiana to his wife and daughter in Indianapolis; two letters from William Leive of Aurora, Indiana; a letter from Emily Middleworth of Indianapolis; two letters and a partial letter from Minnie Newkirk's sister (Helen) Lee Forbis; a card of rememberance of David B. Moe of...
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