Letter to George Frederick Howe, 1926, July 28.

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Letter to George Frederick Howe, 1926, July 28.

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In this letter, written by Turner to a former student and historian George Frederick Howe, Turner is answering some questions Howe had for him regarding another fellow student of Turner's, historian and author Theodore Clark Smith, President James A. Garfield and financier Wharton Barker. Howe may have been writing an article about President Garfield. Theodore Clark Smith published a biography of President Garfield in 1924; George Frederick Howe published a biography of President Chester A. Arthur in 1934.

1 letter, 21 cm., 4 pages.

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