Note from John Langdon Sibley regarding the Papers of John Thornton Kirkland, 1842 January.

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Note from John Langdon Sibley regarding the Papers of John Thornton Kirkland, 1842 January.

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This note was written by John Langdon Sibley while he was the assistant librarian at Harvard College in January 1842. Sibley explains that he has found the Papers of John Thornton Kirkland among other manuscript papers in a chest, which had previously been stored in the College Library located in Harvard Hall. Presumably Sibley discovered Kirkland's papers during the move of the Library from Harvard Hall to Gore Hall in 1841. The note, initialed by Sibley, is torn and missing information.

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