Letter to Margaret Bayard Smith [manuscript], 1841 February 10.

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Letter to Margaret Bayard Smith [manuscript], 1841 February 10.

Hale, Boston, writes to Mrs. Harrison Smith [Margaret Baynard Smith ?] Washington D.C., about her son on the Wilkes expedition, the inauguration of William Henry Harrison which Smith should describe for Godey's Lady's Book, and friends and family.

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