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New-England Legends

Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1871. A collection of eastern Massachusetts legends printed thirteen years before Drake's, and one of the deeper public-domain folklore sources this archive was sent to find.

Document

Type

book

Author

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Publisher

Boston, J.R. Osgood and company

Published, as stated

1871

Language

en

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218358 bytes

Preservation

preserved

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