Letters to Magnus L. Robinson, 1867-1905.

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Letters to Magnus L. Robinson, 1867-1905.

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Primarily correspondence, 1867-1905, with African-American newspaper editors, speakers, and writers, including John M. Langston of Hillside Cottage, Washington, D.C. (about a speaking engagement in Alexandria, Va., and Springfield, Mo.), William Brown of Lincoln, Va. (about African-American voters in Loudoun County, Va.), and John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Planet, Richmond, Va., and Dr. B. Purvis (about his address "Noted Abolitionists"). Additional items include request, 1905, for Robinson to serve as bailiff at a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.; and a copy, n.d., issued by the Virginia Land Office, of Timothy Green's Augusta County, Va., land patent, 1781.

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