James Constantine Pilling letters, 1881-1894.

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James Constantine Pilling letters, 1881-1894.

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Mainly James Constantine Pilling's incoming correspondence, 1881-1894, with U.S. and Canadian missionaries, church officials, ethnologists, historians, and others regarding Indian languages, publications in Indian languages, and missionaries to the Indians.

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