Letter : concerning the Mortara Affair : manuscript, 1858 Aug. 11.

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Letter : concerning the Mortara Affair : manuscript, 1858 Aug. 11.

Concerns Edgardo (Pio) Mortara, a Jewish child from Bologna, who was allegedly abducted by papal authorities in 1858 in order to baptize and raise him as a Catholic.

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