Letter, Halifax, to John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript], 1825 February 27.

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Letter, Halifax, to John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript], 1825 February 27.

Lafayette thanks Cocke for the gift of wild turkeys.

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University of Virginia. Library

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