Letters : to his Father, Samuel H. Adee / by William F. Adee, 1847.

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Letters : to his Father, Samuel H. Adee / by William F. Adee, 1847.

Two letters are written from Ohio, one from New Orleans, and one from Mexico City, where William Adee died of dysentery. Letters are mainly personal and political.

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