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    <abstract id="aspace_e5d7eacf4eedb7e700c233326d0b66b8">Newspaper clippings, notes, biographies, correspondence, and proclamaiton compiled by Blagg for a study of the life of a Preston County editor, Republican politician, and the state's twelfth governor (1905-1909), and Blagg's unpublished manuscript on Dawson's career.</abstract>
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