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Item 73336
Title: Letter to Corinne Sawyer from Edna St. Vincent Millay, May 4, 1914
Contributed by: Camden Public Library
Date: 1914-05-04
Location: Poughkeepsie; Camden
Media: Paper
Item 77897
Title: Letter from Corinne Sawyer to Sandra E. Walker, 1958
Contributed by: Camden Public Library
Date: 1958-04-25
Location: Camden; Fryeburg
Media: Paper
Item 77898
Title: Letter from Corinne Sawyer to Mary S. Komerda, 1955
Contributed by: Camden Public Library
Date: 1955-10-11
Location: Camden; Long Island
Media: Paper
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Lock of George Washington's Hair
Correspondence between Elizabeth Wadsworth, her father Peleg Wadsworth and Martha Washington's secretary about the gift of a lock of George Washington's hair to Eliza.
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Young men and women in the 19th century often went away from home -- sometimes for a few months, sometimes for longer periods -- to attend academies, seminaries, or schools run by individuals. While there, they wrote letters home, reporting on boarding arrangements and coursework undertaken, and inquired about the family at home.
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Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.