Letters : Washington, [D.C.], 1850-1856.

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Letters : Washington, [D.C.], 1850-1856.

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Three letters, to Interior Dept. chief clerk D.C. Goddard (May 25, 1850), New York journalist and anthologist Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Feb. 23, 1855), and Maine physician Augustus Choate Hamlin (Mar. 27, 1856), concerning a recommendation, progress on and Congressional support for Schoolcraft's multi-volume work on U.S. Indian tribes, Hamlin's investigation of Scandinavian and Indian inscriptions for the work, and the republication of an 1821 poem by Schoolcraft.

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