John Fairfield Correspondence 1828-1876 (bulk 1835-1847)

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John Fairfield Correspondence 1828-1876 (bulk 1835-1847)

U.S. senator and representative and governor of Maine. Principally letters from Fairfield to members of his family in Saco, Maine, while he was serving in Congress and as governor relating to personal and family affairs, politics, and life and society in Washington, D.C., and Augusta, Maine.

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