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{"value"=>"278906", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 9828", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"May 13, 1853", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1853-05-13"}
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{"value"=>"Letter to Henry Stephens Randall [Cortland, N. Y.]"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 4 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
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{"value"=>"Is extremely anxious to obtain the clerkship of the Washington papers; Bentley in London would publish the edition as soon as he could prepare it; the time opportune for an indexing and arrangement of Washington's papers to make them safe from curious plunderers; the office hitherto a sinecure; if appointed he would make it one of ten or twelve hours daily work, following the plan of Calendars of British State Paper Office; hears of much dissatisfaction as to the Jefferson papers; the public want no more selections, but the complete works."}
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{"value"=>"Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (Norwalk, Conn.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1853
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1853
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1853-05-13
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1853-05-13
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1853-05-13