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Preferred Citation

James Grant Wilson Letter to General Nathaniel P. Banks, Special Collections Research Center

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Found in A-C volume of Appletons' Dictionary of American Biography at Swem Library by Kevin Ruffner.

Scope and Contents

James Grant Wilson, Appleton's Dictionary Of American Biography , New York, N.Y., to General Nathaniel P. Banks requesting that Banks complete an article about himself for the first volume of the publicaiton and if he is willing to write a few other articles about some of his contemporaries. Includes newspaper article about Kevin Ruffner finding the letter in the "A-C" volume of Appleton's Dictionary of American Biography at Swem Library.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Appleton's Dictionary of American Biography
• Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
• Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914--Correspondence