Correspondence, 1865.

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Correspondence, 1865.

Letters (17) written to Jane Norton (Wigglesworth) Grew, wife of Henry Sturgis Grew, a partner in Russell and Company, Shanghai. The letters date Apr.-Oct. 1865 and are all addressed to Jane in China. They give news of family, friends, Lincoln's assassination, the surrender of Lee, the fall of Richmond, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Correspondents include Anne Wigglesworth, Frederica W.G. Eaton, Jane W. Grew, Henrietta G.W.H. Fitz, Anna C.W. Fitz, and Mary G.W. Pickering.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Fitz, Anna Cornelia Wigglesworth, 1845-1878

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Eaton, Frederica Warren Goddard, 1822-1894.

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Pickering, Mary Goddard Wigglesworth, 1838-1909.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Grew, Jane Wigglesworth, 1805-1868.

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Wigglesworth family.

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Wigglesworth, Anne, 1809-1891.

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Grew family.

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Fitz, Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth Holmes, 1847-1929.

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Grew, Jane Norton Wigglesworth, 1836-1920

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