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Sealts Number 143.2
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| Author: |
Chittenden, L. E. [Lucius Eugene], 1824-1900. |
| Title: |
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention, for Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861. |
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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. |
Sealts
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143.2 |
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Borrowed by Herman Melville. |
| Notes: |
Consulted by Melville at the Astor Library on 30 June 1866, as revealed by the entry "Secret Debates 1 [v.] to Mr. H. Melville NY" (in the hand of a library staff member) for that date in the Daily Record of the Library's North Building. The Catalogue of the Astor Library (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1886-88) lists "Chittenden, Lucius Eugene. Report of debates and proceedings in secret sessions of the Conference Convention, for proposing amendments to constitution of the U.S., held at Washington in Feb., 1861. New York, 1864" (1.771). |
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