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Military and personal correspondence, including several letters from another minister, W.B.W. Howe, discussing the desirability of reserving a portion of church auditoriums for Negro worshipers, and several letters from female correspondents. Also, some executive correspondence of Robert Withers Allston (1801-1864), including three letters relative to an engineering project in progress on the Savannah River in 1858.
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