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{"value"=>"1856-1872", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1856/1872"}
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1856
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1872
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Series II. Letterbooks"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The letterbooks contain copies of Phelps' outgoing letters mostly to friends and relations. However, for the later period there are numerous letters to Charles Sumner and to officials of the American Colonization Society regarding emancipated slaves and the problems of Reconstruction.</p> <p>At the beginning of his diary for 1868-1871 is the continuation of an 1852 letterbook consisting of copies of Phelps' letters while at Ft. Brown, Texas.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"\n Available on microfilm. *ZL-217-3.\n "}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"value"=>"4 volumes", "name"=>"extent"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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4 volumes
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{"type"=>"local_mss", "value"=>"486059"}
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1856
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1872
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1856