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    <unittitle>John Hancock Correspondence</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://viaf.org/viaf/72204820" rules="aacr" source="viaf">Hancock, John</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Knox, Henry</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Leaves</extent>
      <physfacet>Barrowed!</physfacet>
      <dimensions>19 x 23 cm.</dimensions>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="inferred" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1791/1791">1791</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Preferred citation: [Identification of item], John Hancock Correspondence, WLU Coll. 0032, Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.</p><p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact  Special Collections staff to verify the appropriate format.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of William H. Daniel in 1937 or 1938.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>This letter from March 24, 1791 to Henry Knox discusses Hancock's sending two quintals of fish to be shipped from Boston to Philadelphia.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996779" source="fast">Correspondence</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Shipping</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Fishes</subject>
    <geogname source="fast">Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia</geogname>
    <geogname source="fast">Massachusetts -- Boston</geogname>
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