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575. ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH PAPERS
ca. 4,000 items, 1820-95
Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, essays, and newspaper
columns of this nineteenth-century literary figure who was born in Maine and lived in South
Carolina and New York. A diary she kept
during the Civil War contains a lengthy description of the New York draft riot in 1863.
(Acc. 38-707)
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