Notes on almshouses : manuscript, 1842.

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Notes on almshouses : manuscript, 1842.

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Concerns visits to almshouses in Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts, on June 15 and 17, 1842.

1 item in 1v. ; 27 cm.

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