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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Alfred Beckley (1802-1888) Papers, A&amp;M 1563, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Correspondence of General Alfred Beckley and his wife Emily Craig. Several of the letters are by Beckley's mother from Lexington, Kentucky and comment on the Presidential election of 1832 in that state, the reception of President Jackson's in Lexington, 1832 the Cholera scourge, and local social affairs. The rest of the letters are concerned with family matters.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Election of 1832.</subject>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95102104" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888</persname>
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