Letter, 1866 January 9.

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Letter, 1866 January 9.

Letter to William L. Stone regarding some biographical material on Stone's father. Duyckinck states, "The edition of the Cyclopaeded of American Literature to which you allude has just been published... In some further revision of the work there may be opportunity to avail much of the new biographical material respecting your honoured father which you are about to lay before the public." Written at New York, N.Y.

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