Letter to James Southall Wilson, 1922 May 6.

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Letter to James Southall Wilson, 1922 May 6.

Ingram writes to Wilson regarding the sale of John Henry Ingram's library and her fear that his copies of "The Southern Literary Messenger" and some portraits were lost at that time. She is sending Ingram's copies of the 1880 and 1884 editions of his work on Poe, and two letters of Valentine's.

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University of Virginia. Library

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