Letter, 1911 Aug. 22 (Washington, D.C.), to J.W. Johnson (Marion, S.C.)

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Letter, 1911 Aug. 22 (Washington, D.C.), to J.W. Johnson (Marion, S.C.)

Letter in which Ellerbe responds to request of J.W. Johnson, a constituent in Marion, S.C., for the book, American Campaigns (published 1909, by Maj. [Matthew Forney] Steele); written on letterhead for the "Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives U.S., Washington, D.C." Biographical information on J.E. Ellerbe and other members of his family, and an historical sketch of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, built 1895.

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