Letter, 1954 September 10, New York, to Merrill D. Peterson [manuscript].

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Letter, 1954 September 10, New York, to Merrill D. Peterson [manuscript].

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Bowers answers questions about his work on Jefferson posed by Peterson. He discusses the origin of his work on Jefferson and Hamilton, the Sesquicentennial and Jefferson Centennial Commission, the Jefferson League, his newspaper editorials, his 1928 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention and Franklin Roosevelt's Jeffersonian ideals.

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University of Virginia. Library

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