Letters : New York, [N.Y.], 1819-1841.

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Letters : New York, [N.Y.], 1819-1841.

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Three letters written by Leete to: James Tallmadge, a New York congressman (1819 Apr. 19), regarding Tallmadge's Missouri slavery amendment and New York Politics; James G. Percival, a poet and geologist (1825 July 21), regarding the acceptance of a position; and John Canfield Spencer, secretary of war (1841 Dec. 22), soliciting the War Department's advertising for his paper.

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Tallmadge, James, 1778-1853

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