James Grant Wilson Letter to General Nathaniel P. Banks

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College of William and Mary
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Preferred citation:

James Grant Wilson Letter to General Nathaniel P. Banks, Special Collections Research Center

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Foot
Creator:
Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

James Grant Wilson Letter to General Nathaniel P. Banks, Special Collections Research Center

Background

Scope and content:

James Grant Wilson, Appleton's Dictionary Of American Biography, New York, N.Y., to General Nathaniel P. Banks requesting that Banks complete an article about himself for the first volume of the publicaiton and if he is willing to write a few other articles about some of his contemporaries. Includes newspaper article about Kevin Ruffner finding the letter in the "A-C" volume of Appleton's Dictionary of American Biography at Swem Library.

Acquisition information:
Found in A-C volume of Appletons' Dictionary of American Biography at Swem Library by Kevin Ruffner.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard