Letter, 1851 Aug. 15, Pittsfield, to [T.R. Sullivan].

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Letter, 1851 Aug. 15, Pittsfield, to [T.R. Sullivan].

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Holmes praises Sullivan as the instructor of O.W. Holmes Jr. and explains that he is sending the young Holmes to Mr. Dugwell's private school rather than the Latin School upon completion of his English education with Sullivan.

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