Selwyn Z. Bowman letters, 1880-1881.

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Selwyn Z. Bowman letters, 1880-1881.

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Letters received by Mass. Representative Selwyn Z. Bowman while serving in Congress, 1880-81. Letters sent by constituents and colleagues discuss pending legislation and the Republican Party. Includes letters from Alfred Norton of the Boston Customhouse, Boston lawyer Robert A. Southworth, and secretary of the Republican National Committee Stephen Wallace Dorsey, among others. A few of the letters include Bowman's annotated remarks.

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