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    date made
    1967
  • Ray Johnson mail art to David Bourdon

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    not before 1962
  • Museum of Modern Art postcard to Henri Gallery

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    1973
  • Letter to Murano

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    1942-03-03
  • Field letters, September 17 - October 17, 1912

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  • Confederate blockade-run cover

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    January 10, 1865
  • Correspondence with Thomas E. Lovejoy, 1968-1973 concerning data for Humphrey collection, includes lists and notes

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  • Postcards to a little boy a Kindertransport story Henry Foner - Heinz Lichtwitz ; language and production editor, Ita Shapiro Haber

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    2013
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  • Letter from James Anderson to Cyrus W. Field

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    3 Dec 1890
  • A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost letter to Adelaide Lawson Gaylor

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    1905

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