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    <unittitle>Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Washington College</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="crp" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Roosevelt, Theodore</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="n 88218910" role="crp" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Smith, Henry Louis</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Item</extent>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1914/1914">1914</unitdate>
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    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Washington College, WLU Coll. 0492, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA<p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.</p></p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Letter in which Theodore Roosevelt responds to a previous letter by the president of Washington College, Henry Lewis Smith, declining an invitation to speak at the institution.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996779" source="fast">Correspondence</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Speeches, addresses, etc., American</subject>
    <corpname rules="dacs" source="naf">Washington College (Lexington, Va.)</corpname>
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