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    <abstract id="aspace_05f162c7b7b54575f4ef2f269b073351">Typescript copies of forty letters from U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to Senator Stephen B. Elkins from 1886 to 1900. Topics are primarily personal in nature and include trips, family news, weather, and social activities. Harrison also comments briefly on Elkins' election to the Senate in 1894, political appointments, and Indiana politics in the late 1890s.</abstract>
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<p>Gift from Volwiler, A.T., 1949/09/22</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), Typescript Copies of Letters to Senator Stephen B. Elkins, A&amp;M 0157, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
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