ALS, 1910 November 24 : Glen Echo, MD, to Frederick Hill Meserve.

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ALS, 1910 November 24 : Glen Echo, MD, to Frederick Hill Meserve.

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This is a Thanksgiving greeting, in which Barton thanks this man for a descriptive pamphlet of the "Book of Lincoln photographs." Meserve published "The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln," and Barton assisted him in acquiring vintage photographs of herself and others for his subsequent publication, "Historical Photographs."

2 p. ; 17 x 13 cm., with envelope.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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