- unitid
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{"value"=>"280074", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20165", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Apr. 5, 1782", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1782-04-05"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to the Earl of Shelburne"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. On the back is a memorandum to the effect that on Apr. 6 he conversed with Lord Shelburne on the above matters; his lordship offered to send home all the prisoners at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and to discharge Laurens; the latter preferred an exchange for Lord Cornwallis; started for Holland on the 7th to confer with [John] Adams. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"It appears to him that his own case is provided for by the \"Act for the better detaining and more easy exchange of American prisoners brought into Great Britain\"; he is willing to guarantee the release of any British officer now prisoner in exchange for himself; suggests the removal of all American prisoners to their own country, in exchange for a like number of British."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Hotel Covent Garden, London,)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1782
- date_inclusive_end
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1782
- keydate
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1782-04-05
- date_start
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1782-04-05
- date_end
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1782-04-05