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Letter from Washington, D.C., to Darwin C. Pavey, Boston, 1900 November 12

Letter from Washington, D.C., to Darwin C. Pavey, Boston, 1900 November 12, November 12, 1900 — Presidents. Held by Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School, General Draper Memorial Library. Title supplied by cataloger. The author references information regarding survivors of the Confederate Congress and mentions " Life and reminiscences of Jefferson Davis", published by Woodward, Baltimore and "The Southern History…

Document

Type
manuscript
Publisher
Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School
Published
1900-11-12
Published, as stated
November 12, 1900
Language
en
Media type
image/jpeg
Size
190067 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
5db237dceccf8f424c1ae5258f0cd54999c8fb7ceb6655750f867c401be5d598

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Who wrote Letter from Washington, D.C., to Darwin C. Pavey, Boston, 1900 November 12, and who published it?

Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School published it, 1900-11-12.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

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Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

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The Boston Archive holds this record of Letter from Washington, D.C., to Darwin C. Pavey, Boston, 1900 November 12 from Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School.

Attested by: Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online, retrieved 5 September 2026, under No known copyright restrictions.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:letter-from-washington-d-c-to-darwin-c-pavey-boston-1900-november-12
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/letter-from-washington-d-c-to-darwin-c-pavey-boston-1900-november-12
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/letter-from-washington-d-c-to-darwin-c-pavey-boston-1900-november-12.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Digital Commonwealth — Massachusetts Collections Online — source of record
License
No known copyright restrictions (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
commonwealth:cz30w6409
Attribution
Hopedale Jr.-Sr. High School
Rights as stated
No known copyright restrictions.

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