ALS, [1866?] August 29 : Pocaho near Tarrytown, to [Mr. Cox].

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ALS, [1866?] August 29 : Pocaho near Tarrytown, to [Mr. Cox].

JBF appreciates a note, but replies "Lot's wife & Eurydice were not the only types of women--some do not insist on going over & over the same idea & forever looking back."

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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