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<p>Bound legal documents, depositions, related to the 1943 <emph render="italic">Beverly v. Stanley</emph> election contest in Dickenson County, Virginia.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Provenance unknown, but each volume has a note: "Donated from the Private Library of Judge Elihu Jasper Sutherland." The library does not have any other record.</p>  </acqinfo>
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