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{"value"=>"279490", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 14454", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Feb. 17, 1832", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1832-02-17"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Charles Fenton Mercer, House of Representatives, Washington [D. C.]"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Acknowledges Mercer's letter conveying the request of Congress that Custis would consent to the removal of Martha Washington's remains, to be entombed with those of the Chief, [George Washington] within the Capitol: consents to same and asks to be appointed one of those sent to Mount Vernon to perform the last duties; thanks his correspondent, as the last but one survivor of Washington's family, for securing the act; suggests, the dome of the Senate House as the fitting covering for the bones of the pater patriœ, and quotes Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad. In a postscript describes his late essay in portrait painting, one of the Chief on his white horse."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Custis, George Washington Parke (Arlington House, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1832
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1832
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1832-02-17
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1832-02-17
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1832-02-17